The Hard Luck Creek is a barium-barite and zinc mine located in Alaska.
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Hard Luck Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hard Luck Creek
Commodity
Primary: Barium-Barite
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Bismuth
Location
State: Alaska
District: Black
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: Mississippi Valley, Appalachian Zn
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Late Proterozoic.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This property lies within Doyon, Limited selected or conveyed land. For more information, contact Doyon, Limited. This site is within the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = DiMarchi and others, 1993
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = WGM Inc. conducted a soil sampling program in the mid-1970s, and ASA Inc. conducted another soil and rock sampling program in 1993.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Carbonaceous shale-hosted Zn-Pb (Schmidt, 1997; Cox and Singer, 1986; 32b).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Hard Luck Creek prospect area is underlain by a structural duplex comprising a series of west-dipping thrust faults (Doyon, Limited, 1986). The duplex is formed within a north-dipping Devonian to Ordovician sequence of sedimentary rocks that includes the Road River Formation, McCann Hill Chert, and Nation River Formation (DiMarchi and others, 1993). The deposit is hosted in Upper Proterozoic carbonaceous shale and carbonate rocks of the Tindir Group (Doyon, Limited, 1986; Schmidt, 1997). Soil samples in the area revealed anomalous zinc and barium (DiMarchi and others, 1993). WGM Inc.'s soil samples taken prior to the 1993 program also showed anomalous gold, but this was not replicated by the program in 1993 (DiMarchi and others, 1993).
References
Reference (Deposit): Schmidt, J.M., 1997, Shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska, 1997: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 35-65.
Reference (Deposit): DiMarchi, J.J., Weglarz, T.B., Adams, D.D., Hubert, J.A., and West, A.W., 1993, 1993 annual report reconnaissance program, Doyon option lands: ASA Inc., 120 p. (Report held by Doyon Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska.)
Reference (Deposit): Doyon, Limited, 1986, Mines, prospects, and geochemical anomalies on Doyon, Limited, regional overselection lands, Alaska: Fairbanks, Alaska, Doyon, Limited, Report 86-01A, v. 1, 150 p. (Report held by Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska.)
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