Mine detail: Ketchem Dome

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.46668, -144.78986

Resource(M)

Primary: Tin
Ore: Cassiterite
Gangue: Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz, Tourmaline

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:Chloritic, quartz-white mica, topaz, fluorite.

References

MRDSA012266
DEP10001519
Reference{Deposit:: Wilson, F.H., and Shew, N., 1981, Map and tables showing preliminary results of potassium-argon age studies in the Circle Quadrangle, Alaska, with a compilation of earlier dating work: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-889, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Foster, H.L., Laird J., Keith T.E.C., Cushing, G.W., and Menzie, W.D., 1983, Preliminary geologic map of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-A, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Menzie, W.D., Foster, H.L., Tripp, R.B., and Yeend, W.E., 1983, Mineral resource assessment of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-B, 61 p., 1 sheet, 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Dahlin, D.C., Brown, L.L., and Warner J.D., 1987, Characterization of Ketchem Dome tin prospect, east-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 9145, 11 p.}{Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p.}{Deposit:: Wilkinson, K., 1987, Geology of a subarctic, tin-bearing batholith, Circle Hot Springs, Alaska: Fairbanks, Alaska, University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 74, 70 p.}
ReporterJ.R. Guidetti Schaefer, A.S. Clements , C.J. Freeman