Hard Luck Creek Prospect, Black Mining District, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Hard Luck Creek Prospect	Prospect
Black Mining District	Mining District
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

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.
Location: The Hard Luck Creek prospect is at an elevation of about 3,500 feet, near VABM Mush, in sections 27 and 34, T. 5 N., R. 32 E., of the Fairbanks Meridian. The location is accurate to within 2 miles. This prospect is located on Doyon, Ltd. selected or conveyed land.
Geology: 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).
Workings: WGM Inc. conducted a soil sampling program in the mid-1970s, and ASA Inc. conducted another soil and rock sampling program in 1993.
Age: Late Proterozoic.

Commodities (Major) - Ba, Zn; (Minor) - Bi
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Carbonaceous shale-hosted Zn-Pb (Schmidt, 1997; Cox and Singer, 1986; 32b).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	CY017

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