Mine detail: Yellow Pup

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Location: Fairbanks County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 64.98068, -147.35094
dep_id: 10308845
mrds_id: A015307
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Scheelite
gangue: Apatite, Diopside, Garnet, Hornblende
model: 42: W skarn
Reporter: J.R. Guidetti Schaefer and C.J. Freeman
References:
  • Deposit:: Thorne, R.L., Muir, N.M., Erickson, A.W., Thomas, B. I., Hedie, H. E., and Wright, W. S., 1948, Tungsten deposits of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4174, 22 p.
  • Deposit:: Byers, F.M., Jr., 1957, Tungsten deposits in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1024-I, p. 179-216.
  • Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
  • Deposit:: Chapman, R.M., and Foster, R.L., 1969, Lode mines and prospects in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D, 25 p., 1 plate.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Mineral resources of Alaska, in Yount, M.E., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Program, 1975: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 722, 37 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.
  • Deposit:: Robinson, M.S., 1981, Surface geology and ground magnetics of the Yellow Pup tungsten deposit, Gilmore Dome, Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 137, 9 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1200.
  • Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Robinson, M.S., Kline, J.T., and Albanese, M.D., 1982, Geology of the Clipper gold mine, Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 157, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:120.
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