Suzie Mountain

The Suzie Mountain is a platinum mine located in Alaska.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Suzie Mountain  

State:  Alaska

County:  na

Elevation:

Commodity: Platinum

Lat, Long: 58.96, -161.65000

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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

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: Alaskan Cr-Pt (PGE)


Orebody

Not available


Structure

Not available


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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