Mine detail: Mount Hurst

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Location: Ophir County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 63.23193, -156.93729
dep_id: 10308979
mrds_id: A015019
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Chromium
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chromite, Spinel
model: 15: Podiform chromite (minor)
Reporter: C.E. Cameron
References:
  • Deposit:: Roberts, W.S., 1984, Economic potential for chromium, platinum, and palladium in the Mount Hurst ultramafics, west-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 84-22, 52 p.
  • Deposit:: Foley, J.Y., Burns, L.E., Schneider, C.L., and Forbes, R.B., 1989, Preliminary report of platinum group element occurrences in Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 89-20, 32 p., 1 map sheet, scale 1:2,500,000.
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