Mine detail: Mountain Top

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.39743, -157.97173

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar, Stibnite
Gangue: Dickite, Dolomite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host type:Basalt
Associated type:Basalt
Alteration processes:Basaltic rock altered to silica, dolomite, clay, and minor iddingsite.

References

MRDSA013448
DEP10002509
Reference{Deposit:: Sorg, D.H., and Estlund, M.B., 1972, Geologic map of the Mountain Top mercury deposit, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-449, scale 1:600.}{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:: Reifenstuhl, R.R., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., Albanese, M.D., and Allegro, G.A., 1984, Geologic map of the Sleetmute B-6 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 84-12, scale 1:40,000.}{Deposit:: Robinson, M.S., 1984, Rock, pan-concentrate, and stream-sediment geochemistry, Sleetmute B-6 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 84-11, scale 1:40,000.}{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.}
ReporterHuber, D.F., Miller, M.L., Niles, L.P.