Mine detail: Harvison

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.95939, -157.61288

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Kuskokwim Group
Host type:Sandstone
Associated type:Plutonic Rock

References

MRDSA013428
DEP10002488
Reference{Deposit:: Jasper, M.W., 1963, Harvison mercury prospect: Alaska Division Mines and Minerals, Report for the Year 1963, p. 51-52.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Sleetmute quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-368, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.}{Deposit:: Rytuba, J.J., 1986, Descriptive model of Almaden Hg, in Cox, D.P., and Singer, D.A., eds. Mineral Deposit Models: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693, p. 180.}{Deposit:: Miller, M.L., Belkin, H.E., Blodgett, R.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Cady, J.W., Goldfarb, R.J., Gray, J.E., McGimsey, R.G., and Simpson, S.L., 1989, Pre-field study and mineral resource assessment of the Sleetmute quadrangle, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-363, 115 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterMiller, M.L., Niles, L.P., Huber, D.F.