The Snow is a chromium mine located in Alaska.
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Snow MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Snow
Commodity
Primary: Chromium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Homer
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: Podiform chromite (major)
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Text: Serpentization.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chromite
Gangue: Olivine
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This description
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Anaconda minerals discovered the occurrence in 1982 as part of a regional exploration program on the Kenai Peninsula. Work included airborne geophysics, stream and soil geochemistry, minor hand trenching and rock chip samples. Selected samples assayed up to 35% chromic oxide (William Ellis, personal communcation, 1999).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Thin lens and pods of chromite within in a klippe of the informally named Border Ranges mafic and ultramafic complex of Burns (1985). Overall the klippe is about 2 square miles in size and is composed of mostly of hartzbergites and pyroxenites with minor amounts of dunite (Bill Ellis, personal communication, 1999). Chromite is found within the dunite layers as thin layers, lens and pods.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Podiform chromite (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 8b)
Comment (Geology): Age = Jurassic.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Huber, Jeff, 1999, Alaska Resource Data File, Seldovia quadrangle: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-391, 70 p.
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