Mine detail: Kenai Chrome

Previously called 'Star #4Chrome Queen'

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Location: Seldovia County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 59.37947, -151.47254
dep_id: 10309020
mrds_id: A010672
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Chromium
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chromite
model: 16: Podiform chromite (major)
Reporter: Jeff A. Huber
References:
  • Deposit:: Martin G.C., Johnson, B.L., and Grant, U.S., 1915, Geology and mineral resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 587, 243 p.
  • Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1918, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1916: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, 469 p.
  • Deposit:: Gill, A.C., 1920, Preliminary report on the chromite of Kenai Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 712, p. 99-129.
  • Deposit:: Martin, G.C., 1920, The Alaska mining industry in 1918: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 712-A, p. 1-52.
  • Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1921, The future of Alaska mining, in Martin G.C. and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1917: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 714, p. 5-57.
  • Deposit:: Gill, A.C., 1922, Chromite of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 742, 52 p.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1931: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 844-A, p. 1-82.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1934, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1932: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 857-A, p. 1-91.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1936, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1934: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 868-A, p. 1-91.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1937, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1935: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 880-A, p. 1-95.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1938, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-A, p. 1-107.
  • Deposit:: Guild, P.W., 1942, Chromite deposits of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 931-G, p. 139-175.
  • Deposit:: Rutledge, F.A., 1946, Exploration of Red Mountain chromite deposits, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 3885, 26 p.
  • Deposit:: Twenhofel, W.S., 1953, Potential Alaskan mineral resources for proposed electrochemical and electrometallurgical industries in the upper Lynn Canal area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 252, 14 p.
  • Deposit:: Williams, J.A., 1954, Magnetic exploration of the Red Mountain chromite deposit, Kenai, Peninsula: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Prospect Evaluation 104-3, 22 p.
  • Deposit:: Wells, R.R. , Sterling, F.T., Erspamer, E.G., and Stickney, W.A., 1957, Laboratory concentrates of chromite ore, Red Mountain district, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5377, 22 p.
  • Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic minerals resources map of the Seldovia quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-397, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Forbes, R.B., 1974, Garnet-clinopyroxenite from Red Mountain pluton, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 85, p. 285-292.
  • Deposit:: Bird, M.L., 1978, Electron-microprobe study of chromatites associated with alpine ultramafic complexes and some genetic implications: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-119, 53 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than minerals fuels and construction materials) in the Seldovia quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 80-87, 47 p.
  • Deposit:: Toth, M.I., 1981, Petrology, geochemistry, and origin of the Red Mountain ultramafic body near Seldovia, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-0514, 92 p.
  • Deposit:: Burns, L.E., 1985, The Border Range ultramafic and mafic complex, southcentral Alaska: Cumlative fractionates of island-arc volcanics: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 22, p.1020-1038.
  • Deposit:: Foley, J.Y., and Barker, J.C., 1985, Chromite deposits along the Border Ranges fault, part 1, Field investigations and descriptions of chromite deposits: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8990, 58 p.
  • Deposit:: Foley, J.Y., 1992, Ophiolite and other ultramafic metallogenic provinces in Alaska (west of the 141th meridian): U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 92-20-B 65 p.
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