Mine detail: Pargon Mountain

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.13628, -163.47638

Resource(N)

Primary: Mica
Ore: Muscovite
Gangue: Biotite, Calcite, Garnet, Quartz, Tourmaline

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Pegmatite
Alteration processes:Clay coatings on weathered muscovite crystals is present.

References

MRDSA012763
DEP10001929
Reference{Deposit:: Anderson, Eskil, 1943, The Pargon Mountain muscovite prospect, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet No. 4, 12 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-417, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.}{Deposit:: Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L. 1994, Crustal melting events in Alaska, in Plafker, G., and Berg, H. C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 657-670.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson