Mine detail: Black Mountain

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Location: Teller County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.48228, -166.7474
dep_id: 10308745
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Cassiterite, Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Diopside, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Idocrase, Plagioclase, Quartz, Tourmaline, Wollastonite
model: 43: Sn skarn
alteration: Calc-silicate hornfels and tactite development is common; late quartz-fluorite +/- tourmaline veining and alteration is present along faults and fractures
Reporter: Travis L. Hudson
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey, 1964, Geological Survey research 1964: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 501-A. p. A1-A367.
  • Deposit:: Sainsbury, C.L., and Hamilton, J. C., 1967, Mineralized veins at Black Mountain, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 575-B, p. B21-B25.
  • Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey, 1967, Geological Survey research 1967: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 575-A, p. A1-A377.
  • 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:: McDermott, M.M., 1983, Seward Peninsula reconnaissance 1982 geophysical report: Anchorage, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report. 29 p. (Report held by Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.)
  • Deposit:: Reed, B.L., Menzie, W.D., McDermott, M., Root, H., Scott. W., and Drew, L. J., 1989, Undiscovered lode tin resources of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 84, p. 1936-1947.
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