The Suzie Mountain is a platinum mine located in Alaska.
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Suzie Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Suzie Mountain
Commodity
Primary: Platinum
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Alaskan Cr-Pt (PGE)
Orebody
Not available
Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Geology): Age = Jurassic, the inferred age of the ultramafic plutons in the area (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = There has been surface soil and rock sampling at this location (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000). An aeromagnetic survey was flown over the Salmon River area in 1994, a gravity survey has been completed, and some controlled-source audio magneto-telluric lines have been run over selected parts of the ultramafic complexes (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This prospect is on the west ridge of the Suzie Mountain ultramafic complex, a composite dunite, peridotite, and clinopyroxenite pluton that is inferred to be Jurassic in age (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978; Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000). A geochemical survey in the area of this prospect has defined a 700-meter-long and up to 100-meter-wide soil anomaly that averages 130 ppb Pt; the maximum Pt value in the anomaly is 345 ppb Pt (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000). The anomaly extends northwest from Suzie Creek across the ridge crest at this locality. On June 1, 1972, Allen L. Clark (U. S. G. S.) told E. H. Cobb (1972 [MF 362]; 1980 [OF 80-909]) that copper minerals had been found at this locality. In the Salmon River area, traces of chalcopyrite, pyrite, or pyrrohotite are common in surface outcrops of hornblende-bearing rocks in marginal parts of the ultramafic complexes (Alaska Earth Sciences, 2000).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alaskan PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 9)
References
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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): 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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