Chagvan Bay

The Chagvan Bay is a chromium mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Chagvan Bay

Commodity

Primary: Chromium
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum

Location

State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer PGE-Au

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Chromite

Comments

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

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = No workings are present; there was surface sampling in the 1950's and probably at other times (Berryhill, 1963).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Berryhill, 1963

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Berryhill (1963) collected 5 auger samples along this segment of the Kuskokwim Bay beach. Heavy mineral concentrates from these samples contained greater than 10 percent chromite and trace amounts of gold and platinum.

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.

References

Reference (Deposit): Berryhill, R.V., 1963, Reconnaissance of beach sands, Bristol Bay, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6214, 48 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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