Baseline geochemical studies for resource evaluation of D-2 Lands - geophysical and geochemical investigations at the Red Dog and Drenchwater Creek mineral occurrences

• Main Author: Metz, P.A., Robinson, M.S., and Lueck, L.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: University of Alaska Mineral Industry Research Laboratory 1979
• Subjects: Chukchi Sea; Red Dog Creek; Brooks Range; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2136

Major zinc, lead and barite mineralization has been discovered at Red Dog and Drenchwater Creeks in the DeLong Mountains of north-western Alaska. The host rocks for the mineral occurrences are carbonates, cherts, shales, and dacitic volcanic rocks of the Mississippian Lisburne Group. The host rocks...