The Dickens Creek is a lead and copper mine located in Alaska.
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Dickens Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dickens Creek
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Azurite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Mica
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Prospect pits.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Carbonate-hosted, sulfide-bearing silica-rich rock (?).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This is a copper occurrence that may be similar to other copper prospects in the area such as Copper Mountain (NM054), Copper King (NM051), and Copper Creek (NM053) that contain copper carbonate and copper sulfide-bearing, silica-rich zones in metacarbonate rocks. Country rocks at this locality are interlayered pelitic schist and marble (Thurston, 1985, figure 3A). The location is shown in figure 15 of Cathcart (1922) due south of locally named Copper Mountain. Country rock was mapped as chloritic, feldspathic, and graphitic schist containing many limestone units. The area appears to have been first visited by Smith (1908, p. 240-242), then by Moffit (1913, p. 134-135).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Late Proterozoic, early Paleozoic, or Cretaceous.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cathcart, 1922
References
Reference (Deposit): Thurston, S.P., 1985, Structure, petrology, and metamorphic history of the Nome Group blueschist terrane, Salmon Lake area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 600-617.
Reference (Deposit): Cathcart, S.H., 1922, Metalliferous lodes in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722, p. 163-261.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1908, Investigations of mineral deposits of Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 345, p. 206-250.
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1913, Geology of the Nome and Grand Central quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 533, 140 p.
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