Mine detail: Cape Nome

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Location

Lat / long: 64.43651, -165.01047

Resource(B)

Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite, Chromium
Ore: Chromite, Fluorite, Goethite, Gold, Scheelite
Gangue: Biotite, Chlorite, Garnet, Muscovite, Sericite, Sphene

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Gneiss
Associated type:Gneiss

References

MRDSA012854
DEP10002009
Reference{Deposit:: White, M.G., West, W.S., and Matsko, J.J., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the vicinity of Teller and Cape Nome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 244, 8 p.}{Deposit:: Sainsbury, C.L., Hummel, C.L., and Hudson, Travis, 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nome quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-326, 28 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.}{Deposit:: Patrick, B.E. and McClelland, W.C., 1995, Late Proterozoic granitic magmatism on Seward Peninsula and a Barentian origin for Arctic Alaska-Chukotka: Geology, v. 23, p. 81-94.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson, C.C. Hawley