The Red Mountain is a chromium mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Red Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Mountain
Commodity
Primary: Chromium
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: 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
Ore: Chromite
Gangue: Augite
Gangue: Hornblende
Gangue: Olivine
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Berryhill, 1963
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Berryhill (1963, sample locality 44) collected a shovel sample of surface materials at this location and determined that the heavy mineral concentrates contained small amounts of chromite (1 to 10 percent) and traces of Pt and Au. Augite, hornblende, and olivine were reported to be present in amounts exceeding 10 percent. This occurrence is on the steeper part of the west flank of Red Mountain, a composite ultramafic pluton containing abundant dunite. The surface materials at this site are expected to be mostly colluvial and to have been derived directly from erosion of the Red Mountain pluton.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = No workings are present.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer PGE-Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39b)
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): 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., 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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