Mine detail: Unnamed (northwest of Rainbow Basin)

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Location

Lat / long:

59.71932, -159.1327

Resource(M)

Primary:	Molybdenum
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Togiak Terrane
Host type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic),Granite
Alteration processes:	Silicification and oxidation.

References

MRDS	DE00941
DEP	10021689
Reference	Kilburn, J., Box, S.E., Goldfarb, R.J., and Gray, J.E., 1992, Geochemically anomalous areas in the eastern Goodnews Bay quadrangle, southwest Alaska, in Bradley, D. C., and Ford, A. B., eds., The U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishments in 1990: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1999, p. 156-162.
Reporter	Travis L. Hudson