Red Mountain

The Red Mountain is a pge and gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Red Mountain

Commodity

Primary: PGE
Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay

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

Model Name: Placer PGE-Au

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Not available

Comments

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Platinum group metal (PGM) alloys

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = No workings are present. Surface samples have been collected at this locality and both gravity and aeromagnetic surveys have been completed over the Red Mountain pluton (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mertie, 1969

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Mertie (1969, p. 81) reported that a small amount of platinum was recovered from residual surface materials near this location. The residual surface material rests on dunite of the composite Red Mountain ultramafic pluton.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer PGE-Au; residual (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39b)

Comment (Exploration): Status = Active?

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.

References

Reference (Deposit): Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000, The Goodnews Bay ultramafic complexes: Unpublished data, http://aes.alaska.com/UMAF/FIGURES/page4.html
URL: http://aes.alaska.com/UMAF/FIGURES/page4.html

Reference (Deposit): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1969, Economic geology of platinum minerals: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 630, 120 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Hagemeister Island quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-362, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.

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