Mine detail: Makushin Volcano Sulfur

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 53.8866, -166.92908

Resource(N)

Primary: Sulfur
Ore: Sulfur

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Basalt
Associated type:Basalt
Alteration processes:Hydrothermal alteration of basalt(?).

References

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Reference{Deposit:: Veniaminov, Ivan, 1840, Notes on the islands of the Unalaska District, translated by Black, L.T., and Geoghegan, R.H., edited with introduction, Pierce, R.A., (1984): Alaska History No. 27, The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library Translation Program, Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks and The Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 511 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1919, Alask* mineral supplies: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 666, p 89-102.}{Deposit:: Maddren, A.G., 1919, Sulfur on Unalaska and Akun Islands and near Stepovak Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 692,-E p. 283-298.}{Deposit:: Snyder, G.L., 1959, Geology of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-H, p. 169-210, 1 map sheet, scale 1:20,000.}{Deposit:: Drewes, Harold, Fraser, G.D., Snyder, G.L., and Barnett, H.F., Jr., 1961, Geology of Unalaska Island and adjacent insular shelf, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-S, p. 583-676.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.}{Deposit:: Motyka, R.J., 1983, High-temperature hydrothermal resources in the Aleutian arc, in Alaska Geological Society Symposium on western Alaska, geology and resource potential: Anchorage, 1982, Proceedings, Journal of the Alaska Geological Society, v. 3, p. 87-99.}{Deposit:: Motyka, R.J., Moorman, M.A., and Poreda, R.J., 1983, Progress report, thermal fluid investigations of the Makushin geothermal area: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 83-15, 48 p.}{Deposit:: Motyka, R.J., Queen, L.D., Janik, C.J., Sheppard, D.S., Poreda, R.J., and Liss, S.A., 1988, Fluid geochemistry and fluid-mineral equilibria in test wells and thermal-gradient holes at the Makushin geothermal area, Unalaska Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 88-14, 90 p.}{Deposit:: Nye, C.J., Queen, L.D., and Motyka, R.J., 1984, Geologic map of the Makushin geothermal area, Unalaska Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 84-3, scale 1:24,000.}{Deposit:: Queen, L.D., 1989, Alteration, fluid inclusion, and water-rock equilibrium in the Makushin hydrothermal system, Unalaska Island, Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbnaks, M.Sc. thesis, 128 p.}{Deposit:: Reeder, J.W., 1982, Hydrothermal resources of the northern part of Unalaska Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report AOF-163, 17 p.}{Deposit:: Reeder, J.W., 1982, Hydrothermal resources of the Makushin Volcano region of Unalaska Island, Alaska, in Watson, S.T., ed., Conference on Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources, 3rd, Honolulu, 1982, Transactions, p. 441-450.}{Deposit:: Republic Geothermal Inc., 1983, The Unalaska geothermal exploration project, phase 1B: Final report to Alaska Power Authority, 160 p., 16 appendices, 9 plates, scales 1:24,000 and 1:50,000.}{Deposit:: Republic Geothermal Inc., 1984, The Unalaska geothermal exploration project, phase II: Final report to Alaska Power Authority, 104 p., 13 appendices.}
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