Snow

The Snow is a chromium mine located in Alaska.

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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

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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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