HOM (Mina Creek)

The HOM (Mina Creek) is a zinc, silver, and lead mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: HOM (Mina Creek)

Commodity

Primary: Zinc
Primary: Silver
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Copper

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Massive sulfide, kuroko

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The deposit is oxidized; quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration is inferred to be present.

Rocks

Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Devonian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Devonian ; this is a strataform deposit and the host felsic schist is interpreted to be similar in age to the Devonian gneiss at Kiwalik Mountain (Till and others, 1986).

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some core drilling took place here in the 1970's.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Kuroko massive sulfide (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 28a)

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This is a volcanogenic massive sulfide prospect that was explored by Houston Oil and Minerals (HOM) in the 1970's. Exploration included core drilling. Drilling encountered up to 5 % sphalerite in felsic schist with some galena and silver values (R. Cunningham, written communication, 1998). The felsic schist is probably similar to other felsic schist sequences that are present in a belt to the east, south, and west of Kiwalik Mountain. The metamorphic assemblage containing felsic schist was not mapped separately by Till and others (1986) except along a part of Independence Creek. It is inferred to be of Devonian age, the age of the Kiwalik Mountain gneiss (Till and others, 1986). The geologic setting for this prospect and that at Big Bar (BN083, south of Kiwalik Mountain) seems to be similar to that of the Ambler district in the southern Brooks Range.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This description

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

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