Mine detail: Thunderbird Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.42955, -149.30264

Resource(M)

Primary: Chromium
Ore: Chromite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Slight serpentinization of olivine.

References

MRDSA011641
DEP10000969
Reference{Deposit:: Rose, A.W., 1966, Geology and chromite-bearing ultramafic rocks near Eklutna, Anchorage quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geologic Report 18, 25 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:42,000.}{Deposit:: Clark, S.H.B., and Bartsch, S.R., 1971, Reconnaissance geologic map and geochemical analyses of stream sediment and rock samples of the Anchorage B-7 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 484, 70 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:36,360}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Anchorage Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-409, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bering Glacier, Icy Bay, Middleton Island, and Yakutat quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1246, 41 p.}
ReporterS.W. Huss, D.P. Bickerstaff