Mine detail: Unnamed skarn, near Lime Peak (Rocky Mountain)

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Location: Circle County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.62771, -146.656
dep_id: 10308820
mrds_id: A012258
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Pyrrhotite, Scheelite
model: 43: Sn skarn
alteration: Fe-rich skarn
Reporter: C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer, A.S. Clements
References:
  • Deposit:: Menzie, W.D., Foster, H.L., Tripp, R.B., and Yeend, W.E., 1983, Mineral resource assessment of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-B, 61 p., 1 sheet, 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Burton, P.J., Warner, J.D., and Barker, J.C., 1985, Reconnaissance investigation of tin occurrences at Rocky Mountain (Lime Peak), east-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 31-85, 44 p.
  • Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p.
  • Deposit:: Smith, T.E., Pessel, G. H., and Wiltse, M.A., 1987, Mineral assessment of the Lime Peak-Mt. Prindle area, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Paper 29, 712 p., scale 1:63,360.
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