Commodities
PrimarySilver, Gold
SecondaryTungsten, Copper, Lead
Deposit
Model85: Polymetallic veins
Materials
Ore mineralsArsenopyrite, Bismuth, Bismuthinite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Stibnite, Scorodite, Telluride
GangueQuartz
Geology
AlterationMetasedimentary rocks are hornfelsed and silicified. Locally, the schist is altered to clay and iron-stained. Oxidation of sulfides has produced gossan.
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Identification
Deposit ID10307896
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates64.10643, -158.05411
References
Flanigan, B., 1998, Genesis and mineralization of ore deposits in the Illinois Creek region, West Central Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 125 p., 2 plates.