Mine detail: Uranium 3 (in Selawik Hills)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

66.13137, -160.66034

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium, Thorium
Ore:	Xenotime, Zircon
Gangue:	Epidote, Fluorite, Goethite, Limonite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Hornblendite
Alteration processes:	An unidentified red, waxy mineral is altered to goethe and limonite.

References

MRDS	A013504
DEP	10002561
Reference	{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., 1977, Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-166C, 41 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Barker, J.C., 1985, Sampling and analytical results of a mineral reconnaissance in the Selawik Hills area, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 43-85, 67 p.}
Reporter	Anita Williams