Mine detail: Eklutna Tunnel

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.46955, -149.15265

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

References

MRDSA011645
DEP10000971
Reference{Deposit:: Athern, M.J., and Judd, W.R., 1956, Final engineering geology report on the Eklutna project: unpublished report of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 109 p.}{Deposit:: Rose, A.W., 1966, Geology and chromite-bearing ultramafic rocks near Eklutna, Anchorage quadrangle,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-6 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 475, 63 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 Anchorage quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1095, 184 p.}{Deposit:: Winkler, G.R., 1992, Geologic map and summary geochronology of the Anchorage (1 degree x 3 degree) quadrangle, southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2283, 1:250,000.}
ReporterS.W. Huss, D.P. Bickerstaff