Mine detail: Unnamed (along Snow Passage)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.28174, -132.94485

Resource(N)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Chalcedony, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Fluorite possible formed during a degassing stage of the cooling of the rhyolite hostrock.

References

DEP10308064
Reference{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1923, Mineral deposits of the Wrangell district; U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 739, p. 51-75.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870, 53 p.}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Philpotts, John, and Evans, J.R., 1992, Rare earth minerals in*hunder egg*from Zarembo Island, southeast Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2041, p. 98-105.}
ReporterH.C. Berg and D.J. Grybeck