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Alaska, USA

Alaska is simply huge. If a map of Alaska is overlain, in the same scale, onto the continental USA, it stretches from New York state to northern Florida, and from just off the coast of the Carolinas to Los Angeles, California, at the tip of the Allutian Islands!

Alaska calls its counties "boroughs." In addition, there are independent cities and some 200 incorporated native areas (Native Corporations). These latter entities may overlap the boroughs, just as indian reservations may overlap county lines and even state lines in the lower 48 states.

The vast size of Alaska accounts for the widely diversified geological terrains encountered from arctic tundra to volcanic arc islands and magnificent mountain ranges. Large areas of lode and placer gold, base metal deposits, petroleum, and igneous occurrences are all encountered in Alaska.

Due to the extensive expanses of shear wilderness, many localities can best be located by identifying the USGS 1:250,000 quadrangle in which each lies, and by latitude-longitude coordinates.




Mineral list contains entries from all localities listed at bottom of page


Mineral List:
  • Actinolite
       var: Byssolite
  • Aegirine
  • 'AHF'
  • Albite
  • Almandine
  • 'Almandine-Pyrope Series'
  • Aluminocopiapite (TL)
  • 'Amber'
  • Amphibole Group
    var: Uralite
  • Andradite
  • Anhydrite
  • Anilite
  • Ankerite
  • Anthophyllite
  • Antlerite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Argyrodite
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Azurite
  • Barrerite
  • Barroisite (TL)
  • Baryte
  • 'Bastnäsite'
  • Bementite
  • Bertrandite
  • Beryl
  • Beudantite
  • Biotite
  • Bismuth
  • Bismuthinite
  • Bornite
  • Boulangerite
  • Bournonite
  • Bowieite (TL)
  • Calcite
  • Carrollite
  • Cassiterite
  • Celsian
  • Cerussite
  • Cervantite
  • Chalcanthite
  • 'Chalcedony'
       'var: Petrified Wood'
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Cherepanovite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Chromite
  • Chrysoberyl
  • Chrysocolla
  • Cinnabar
  • 'Clinopyroxene Subgroup'
  • Clinozoisite
  • Clintonite
  • 'Coal'
  • Copper
  • Covellite
  • Cummingtonite
  • Cuprite
  • Cymrite
  • Diamond
  • Dickite
  • Digenite
  • Diopside
  • Djurleite
  • Dolomite
  • Enargite
  • Epidote
  • Erlichmanite
  • Euclase
  • Eudialyte
  • Fluorite
  • Forsterite
  • Freibergite
  • Froodite
  • Galena
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • 'Garnierite'
  • Genkinite
  • Geversite
  • Gillespite (TL)
  • Goethite
  • Gold
       var: Electrum
  • Grossular
  • Hastingsite
  • Hedenbergite
  • Hematite
  • Hercynite
  • Hollingworthite
  • Hongshiite
  • 'Hornblende'
  • Hulsite (TL)
  • Humite ?
  • Ice
  • Iimoriite-(Y)
  • Illite
  • Ilmenite
  • Ilvaite
  • Insizwaite
  • Irarsite
  • Iridarsenite
  • Iridium
       var: Osmiridium
       var: Platiniridium
  • Iron
    var: Kamacite
  • Isoferroplatinum
  • Jamesonite
  • Kaolinite
  • Kashinite
  • Kermesite
  • Kobellite
  • Konderite
  • Kotulskite
  • Laumontite
  • Laurite
  • Limonite
  • Löllingite
  • Ludwigite
  • Luzonite
  • Maghemite
  • Magnesite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • Marcasite
  • Melanterite
  • Meliphanite
  • Mercury
  • Mertieite-I (TL)
  • Mertieite-II (TL)
  • Miassite
  • Millerite
  • Molybdenite
  • 'Monazite'
  • Moncheite
  • Montmorillonite
  • Mordenite
  • Muscovite
       var: Fuchsite
  • Nagyágite
  • Niggliite
  • Nordenskiöldine
  • 'Olivine'
  • Orpiment
  • Orthoclase
       var: Adularia
  • Osarsite
  • Osmium
       var: Iridosmine
  • Palladium
  • Pearceite
  • Pentlandite
  • Phenakite
  • Platarsite
  • Platinum
  • Polarite
  • Polybasite
  • Potarite
  • Prehnite
  • Pyrargyrite
  • Pyrite
  • 'Pyrobitumen'
  • Pyrolusite
  • 'Pyroxene Group'
  • Pyroxmangite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
       var: Amethyst
       var: Chert
       var: Rutilated Quartz
  • Rhodium
  • Rhodonite
  • Riebeckite
  • Ruthenarsenite
  • Rutheniridosmine
  • Ruthenium
  • Rutile
       var: Ilmenorutile
  • Sarmientite
  • 'Scapolite'
  • Scheelite
  • Schoenfliesite (TL)
  • Scorodite
  • 'Sericite'
  • Siderite
  • Siderophyllite
  • Silver
  • Smithsonite
  • Sperrylite
  • Sphalerite
  • Stannopalladinite
  • Stellerite
  • Stephanite
  • Stibiconite
  • Stibiopalladinite
  • Stibnite
  • 'Stilbite'
  • Stilbite-Ca
  • Stromeyerite
  • Strontiopyrochlore
  • Sulphur
  • Taenite
  • Temagamite
  • Tennantite
  • Tetraferroplatinum
  • Tetrahedrite
  • Thorite
  • Titanite
  • Tolovkite
  • Topaz
  • 'Tourmaline'
  • Tschermakite
  • Tulameenite
  • Ullmannite
  • 'Unnamed (Ir-Fe alloy; no. 2)'
  • Uraninite
  • Uvarovite
  • Vesuvianite
  • Villamanínite
  • Vonsenite
  • Wairakite
  • Wolframite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Xingzhongite
  • Yugawaralite
  • Zircon
  • Zoisite


    228 entries listed. 189 valid minerals. 8 type localities (valid minerals).

    Localities in this Region:
    USA
     
    • Alaska
        • Unalaska Island
        • Unga Island
        • Kolmakof
        • Kuskokwim Region
          • Sleimut District (Sleetmute District)
            • Red Devil
      • Chena River
      • Chitina District
        • Copper River
      • Copper River District
        • Aleknagik
          • Marsh Mt
        • Chena River
          • Tors Campground Trail
        • Douglas Island
        • Kachemak Bay
          • Seldovia
      • Lake And Peninsula Borough
    USA
     
    • Alaska
      • Matanuska-Susitna Borough
        • Willow Creek District
      • Nelchina
        • Nome
          • York Range
      • North Slope Co.
        • Brooks Range
          • Cosmos Hills
        • Chicago Creek
          • Chicago Creek
      • Palmer
        • Glenn Hwy
          • Bokan Mountain
      • Sitka Borough
        • Admiralty Island
      • Valdez-Cordova Borough
        • Chatham Strait
        • Kuiu Island
        • Mitkof Island
          • Wrangell
        • Alaska Range
        • Amber District
        • Chandalar

    The above list contains all mineral locality references listed on mindat.org. This does not claim to be a complete list. If you know of more minerals from this site, please register so you can add to our database!
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