The Indian Mountain is a silver mine located in Alaska.
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Indian Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Indian Mountain
Secondary: Unnamed (near Indian Mountain)
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek
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: Porphyry Cu-Au
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Claim staked during 1962-63. Analysis of rock samples yielded 1 ppm Ag, 8 ppm Mo, 0.01% Cu (Balen, 1990). At least some of these samples were quartz veins.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Balen, 1990
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Porphyry Cu-Au or polymetallic vein? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 20c or 22c?)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Available information is not sufficiently detailed to determine whether or not this site is the same as the Unnamed prospect reported in ARDF no. TK009.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Lode claim at contact of Tertiary granite with argillite. Quartz veins occur in the granite. Analysis of rock samples yielded 1 ppm Ag, 8 ppm Mo, 0.01% Cu (Balen, 1990). At least some of these samples were quartz veins.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Balen, M.D., 1990, Geochemical sampling results from the Bureau of Mines investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 34-90, 218 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Kurtak, J.M., Southworth, D.D., Balen, M.D., and Clautice, K.H., 1992, Mineral investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, south-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1-92, 659 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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