Mine detail: Potato Mountain

Previously called 'Quartz Porphry dikeRed FoxEurekaDaisyIron Creek valleyBig and Little Potato Mountain divideIron Creek-Oakland Creek divide'

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Location: Teller County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.66326, -167.55743
dep_id: 10308729
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Cassiterite
gangue: Quartz, Tourmaline
alteration: Local argillic alteration and probably local weak to moderate tourmaline replacement.
Reporter: Travis L. Hudson
References:
  • Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., 1965, Tin-lode investigations. Potato Mountain area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6587, 85 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: McDermott, M.M., 1982, Gravity profiles of Black Mountain and Potato Mountain, Seward Peninsula: Anchorage, Alaska, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report (Report held by Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska).
  • Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Arth, J. G., 1983, Tin-granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 768-790.
  • Deposit:: Meyers, W.C., 1990, Report on 1990 exploration activities at the Potato Mountain tin prospect, Teller AMS sheet, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, Kennecott Exploration Inc. internal report.
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