The Cars is a tungsten mine located in Alaska.
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Cars MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cars
Secondary: Salcha River
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Alaska
District: Circle
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: W skarn
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Tungsten Skarn Deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 14a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Scheelite occurs within a discontinuous idocrase-garnet skarn in interlayered calc-silicate schist and impure marble along a contact with a lower Tertiary granite pluton (Nokleberg and others, 1987, p. 34). The schist and marble are part of the middle Paleozoic or older Yukon-Tanana terrane (Nokleberg and others, 1987, p. 34).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface samples only.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Nokleberg and others, 1987.
References
Reference (Deposit): Foster, H.L., Laird J., Keith T.E.C., Cushing, G.W., and Menzie, W.D., 1983, Preliminary geologic map of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-A, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Menzie, W.D., Foster, H.L., Tripp, R.B., and Yeend, W.E., 1983, Mineral resource assessment of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-B, 61 p., 1 sheet, 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., Clough, J.G., Lueck, L.L., Green, C.B., Robinson, M.S., and Coleman, D.A., 1984, Alaska's Mineral Industry, 1983: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 33, 56 p.
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., Green, C.B. and Lueck, L.L., 1986, Alaska's mineral industry in 1985: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 39, 68 p.
Reference (Deposit): Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p.
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