The Red Mountain is a chromium mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Red Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Mountain
Secondary: Star #4 Mine
Secondary: Chrome Queen
Commodity
Primary: Chromium
Tertiary: Nickel
Tertiary: Cobalt
Location
State: Alaska
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1957
Time Period: 1954-1957
Year: 1944
Time Period: 1942-1944
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1942
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: OLIVINE SHOWED 0.25% NI, 0.03% CO
Analytical Data: SAMPLES RAN FROM 42% TO 90% CHROMITE (24.4%-52.1% CR2O3)
Materials
Ore: Olivine
Ore: Chromite
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATION GIVEN IS CENTER OF AN AREA COVERING 7 SQ MILES LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Production): THERE MAY HAVE BEEN OTHER PRODUCTION, BUT THERE IS NO RECORD
Comment (Development): UNION CARBIDE MAY NOW HOLD SOME OF THE CLAIMS ON THIS PROPERTY
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL ADITS WITH STOPES
Comment (Reserve-Resource): INCLUDES INDICATED AND INFERRED ORE
Comment (Deposit): BANDS OF CHROMITITE IN DUNITE FROM ALPINE ULTRAMAFIC BODY. SOME BANDS ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET LONG AND UP TO 100 FEET THICK, BUT ARE MOSTLY ABOUT 1 FOOT OR LESS THICK.
Comment (Geology): ALPINE-TYPE ULTRAMAFIC BODY SEEMS TO BE A KLIPPE IN THRUST CONTACT WITH MCHUGH COMPLEX. DUNITE WITH BANDS OF PYROXENITE AND CHROMITITE.
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULLETIN 742, P. 6-14
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULLETIN 931-G, P. 140-152, 163-175
Reference (Deposit): USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 3885.
Reference (Deposit): USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 5377
Reference (Deposit): USGS OPEN FILE 80-87, P. 28-31
Reference (Production): USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 3885. USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 5377
Reference (Reserve-Resource): USGS CIRCULAR 252, P. 10-11
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