The Mountain Top is a mercury mine located in Alaska.
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Mountain Top MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mountain Top
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Secondary: Antimony
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Almaden Hg
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Basaltic rock altered to silica, dolomite, clay, and minor iddingsite.
Rocks
Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Dickite
Gangue: Dolomite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Epithermal vein, mercury-antimony
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock consists of graywacke and shale in association with olivine basalt dikes (Sorg and Estlund, 1972) or flows (Reifenstuhl and others, 1984). Mineralization consists of veins of cinnabar 1 dolomite localized near faults in the basalt. Stibnite 1 quartz found as float fragments. Sorg and Estlund (1972) reported presence of hydrocarbons, dickite, and buddingtonite at Mountain Top.
Comment (Production): Production Notes = About 165 flasks of Hg produced from 1982-86 (Miller and others, 1989)
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Sorg "&" Estlund, 1972
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Sorg and Estlund (1972) estimate 200 flasks of reserves (produced 165 flasks from '82-86).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Explored by hand auger and bulldozer after discovery in 1968. USBM drilled 7 holes (50 ft(15 m) in 1979.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
References
Reference (Deposit): Miller, M.L., Belkin, H.E., Blodgett, R.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Cady, J.W., Goldfarb, R.J., Gray, J.E., McGimsey, R.G., and Simpson, S.L., 1989, Pre-field study and mineral resource assessment of the Sleetmute quadrangle, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-363, 115 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Rytuba, J.J., 1986, Descriptive model of Almaden Hg, in Cox, D.P., and Singer, D.A., eds. Mineral Deposit Models: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693, p. 180.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountains quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.
Reference (Deposit): Robinson, M.S., 1984, Rock, pan-concentrate, and stream-sediment geochemistry, Sleetmute B-6 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 84-11, scale 1:40,000.
Reference (Deposit): Sorg, D.H., and Estlund, M.B., 1972, Geologic map of the Mountain Top mercury deposit, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-449, scale 1:600.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.
Reference (Deposit): Reifenstuhl, R.R., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., Albanese, M.D., and Allegro, G.A., 1984, Geologic map of the Sleetmute B-6 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 84-12, scale 1:40,000.
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