The Red Mountain is a platinum mine located in Alaska.
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Red Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Mountain
Commodity
Primary: Platinum
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mertie, 1969
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = No workings are present. The area has been included in soil geochemical surveys, and both gravity and aeromagnetic surveys have been completed over the Red Mountain pluton (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer PGE-Au; residual (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 9b)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Mertie (1969, p. 84) reported that the heavy mineral concentrate from a sample of residual surface material at this location contained platinum. The residual surface material rests on dunite of the composite Red Mountain ultramafic pluton and upslope to the northwest of a large platinum-in-soil anomaly over this pluton (HG006).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
References
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): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1969, Economic geology of platinum minerals: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 630, 120 p.
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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