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Gypsum from
Red Dog Mine, Lisburne Mining District (Red Dog Mining District), Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Dog Mine, Lisburne Mining District (Red Dog Mining District), Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:614742
Long-form Identifier:1:3:614742:6
GUID (UUID V4):0d3d0c6e-7c3b-492f-a1cb-e7ccf1e2e471
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
64.8km (40.3 miles) Kagvik Creek Occurrence, Noatak Mining District, North Slope Borough, Alaska, USA
References
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Report (issue)
MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN ELEVEN QUADRANGLES IN NORTHERN ALASKA, SUPPLEMENT TO OPEN-FILE REPORT 75-628 PART A ... SUMMARIES OF DATA TO JANUARY 1, 1981 Arctic, p. A4 Howard Pass, p. A14 Baird Mountains, p. A5 Misheguk...summarized data on mineral occurrences in northern Alaska (Cobb, E. H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral...mineral fuels and construction materials) in northern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-628...in Part A, the name, U.S. Bureau of Mines mining district, reference (if any) that has the occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluids at the Shale-Hosted Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits, Brooks Range, Alaska DAVID L. LEACH,† ERIN MARSH...80225 Abstract The Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag district in the western Brooks Range, northern Alaska, contains numerous...of the Carboniferous Kuna Formation. The giant Red Dog shale-hosted deposits consist of a cluster of four...electrolyte composition of vein sphalerite in the Red Dog deposits are remarkably similar to those characteristics...deposits, a “reflux brine” model is suggested for the Red Dog deposits. In this model, brines were produced in
Report (issue)
Division of Mining & Water Management FRONT COVER Top left: From late 199] to 1993 Cambior Alaska Inc. constructed...Phase one channeled the stream around the open-pit mine operations. During the stream diversion the company...quality, stream flow, and fish populations. When the mine closed, Valdez Creek was diverted back to its original...work on Pit A-8 of Valdez Creek gold mine operated by Cambior Alaska Inc. as it appeared in early August...August 1994. From 1984 to 1995 Cambior Alaska and previous operators produced 459,162 ounces (14,279 kilograms)
Report (issue)
Development Division of Mining & Water Management FRONT COVER Top: Ryan Lode Mine gold recovery plant and...investigates a silver prospect in the Chulitna mining district during a DGGS mapping project in July 1997...(left) and Jim Vohden (right) of the Alaska Division of Mining & Water Management, and Bronwen Wang of...on face in the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island west of Juneau, Alaska. Photo by Jan Nauman. GEOLOGY...ip nw si 9" K.H. Clautice + ee J.L. Nauman Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological
Report (issue)
developed, the deposit will be mined by underground mining methods. The deposit is part of lands owned by...placer gold mine operations on the Eureka and Mary's bench depositsin the Koyukuk-Nolan district of northern...northern Alaska. The center nugget weighs 41.35 ounces (1,286 grams) and is unofficially the tenth largest...placer gold mine, 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Cantwell, has been Alaska's largest gold mine for ten...in the world. In 1994 the mine, which has been operated by Cambior Alaska Inc., produced 47,622 ounces
Report (issue)
Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments During 1975 The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments...Edward H. The United States Geological Survey in Alaska. (Geological Survey Circular 733) Supt.ofDocs.no...States Geological Survey 2. Geological research-Alaska. 3. Geology-AlaskaBibliography. I. Cobb, Edward...resources of Alaska, by Edward H. Cobb ___________________________ New gravity map of Alaska, by David F...______________________ Exploration geochemistry in Alaska, by G. C. Curtin, G. W. Day, C. L. Forn, T. D.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey, 4200 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508 3Geoscience 4School 5Centre Australia,...significant sulfate-bearing evaporites; (4) formation of red beds and oxidized aquifers, possibly containing easily...processes below the sea floor (e.g., Anarraaq and Red Dog deposits: Kelley et al., 2004a, b), whereas some...PbZn ore deposition. Some rifts are associated with red beds, evaporites, and mafic or bimodal volcanic rocks...from universal. Red beds and evaporites form mainly in the arid belts (~15°−35° lat), red beds did not even
Report (issue)
are liquids at room temperature element names in red are gases at room temperature element names in black............................................. I11 Mining and Beneficiation Methods................................................................... I15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ I19 Mine Closure...........................................the Red Dog mining district in Alaska and the stratigraphy of selected deposits in the district.....
Report (issue)
Assessment of the Wiseman 1° by 3° Quadrangle, Alaska by James D. Bliss , William P. Brosge , John... 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA. 2. Alaska Division of Mines and Geology, Fairbanks, AK. 3...7), devoted to the mineral deposits of northern Alaska, became available just as the Wiseman mineral resource...Wiseman quadrangle (fig. 1) has been made under the Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program (AMRAP). The...Doonerak Fenster, trending northeast, flanked on the northwest and southeast by large synforms. The exposed core
Report (issue)
SURVEY KNOWN MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA By Donald Grybeck Open-file report 77-166C 1977...BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA by Donald Grybeck This report, one of a series under the Regional Alaska Mineral Resource...mineral deposits of the Brooks Range. The Regional Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program is directed...the land selected under section 17 (d)(2) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Brooks Range Because...unlikely in most of the area with the exception of the Arctic National Wildlife Range. There are no published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Mining-Related Selenium Contamination in Alaska, and the State of Current Knowledge...2 3 * Department of Mining and Geological Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 306 Tanana Drive...Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; akhamkhash@alaska.edu (A.K.); vksrivastava@alaska.edu (V.S.); rganguli@alaska...Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 306 Tanana Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; saggarwal@alaska.edu...its discharge from myriad industrial sources. The mining industry is a prime contributor of hazardous selenium
Report (issue)
SYMPOSIUM ON MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, CORDILLERAN SECTION...symposium on Mineral Deposits of the Pacific Northwest. This symposium consisted of four one-half day...northward through British Columbia to northwestern Alaska. Although the central theme was invariably concerned...detailed investigations of single ore deposits, or of mining districts, to large-scale regional syntheses,...zinc-lead-barium deposits, Red Dog Creek and Drenchwater Creek areas, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska I. M. Lange
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-Tl-As-Sb-Ge-REE Enrichment in the Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag District, Northern Alaska: Geochemistry, Origin, and Exploration...and Anarraaq deposits in the Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag district of northern Alaska. Detailed lithogeochemical profiles...chemical changes for altered wall rocks in the district, on the basis of average Al-normalized data relative... Pb, Tl, As, Sb, and Ge at both Red Dog and Anarraaq, Si at Red Dog, and Sr, U, and Se at Anarraaq. Large...both Red Dog and Anarraaq, for Mg, P, and Y at Red Dog, and for Na at Anarraaq. At both Red Dog and Anarraaq
Report (issue)
The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments During 1976 Kathleen M. Blean, Editor................... 1 Preliminary geologic map of Alaska, by Helen M. Beikman ................................................... 1 Mineral resources of Alaska, by Edward H. Cobb ..............................water quality in three streams along the trans-Alaska pipeline, by J. W. Nauman, C. E. Sloan, and D....enhancement studies: Limnological studies in southeastern Alaska and water quality measurements along the TAPS route
Report (issue)
isotope data base for sulfide occurrences from Alaska, December, 1989 by J.D. Gaccetta1 and S.E. Church2...of Alaska used in this report.............. 2 Figure 2. Mining regions and districts of Alaska......isotope data from sulfide occurrences from northern Alaska..................................... 8 Table...data from sulfide occurrences from west-central Alaska................................. 14 Table 3. ...data from sulfide occurrences from east-central Alaska................................. 20 Table 4.
Report (issue)
Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1995 Julie A. Dumoulin and John E. Gray, Editors...Hydrogeochemistry of mine-drainage waters associated with low-sulfide, gold-quartz veins in Alaska Richard J. Goldfarb...skarn and Kennecott strata-bound copper deposits, Alaska Robert G. Eppinger, Stephen J. Sutley, and John...environment, Kuskokwim Mountains region, southwestern Alaska Elizabeth A. Bailey and John E. Gray ............shorelines, Naknek and Iliamna Lakes, southwestern Alaska Darrell S. Kaufman and Karen B. Stilwell......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GeologicSettingand Genesisof the Red Dog Zinc-Lead-SilverDeposit, Western BrooksRange,Alaska D. W. MOORE, Cominco... YOUNG, ComincoAlaska, 5660 B Street,Anchorage,Alaska 99518 J. s. MODENE, ComincoAmerican,Inc., East...BackhornOperation,P.O. Box976, Carlin, Nevada89822 Abstract Red Dog is a Mississippianto Pennsylvanian-age blackshale-hosted...oldermaficandultramafic igneous sequences. The Red Dog depositoccursin the secondlowestallochthon,in black...secondordersedimentarybasinin whichthe deposit formed. The Red Dog depositis a strata-bound accumulation of silicarock
Report (Issue volume)
of nonfuel minerals and a chapter on trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial mineral...Survey of Alabama. Alaska: Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Alaska Department of Natural..... ... ... ... . . . . .... . .... . .. . . 43 Alaska, by Tom L. Pittman . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....which 329), which placed the collection of min- Mine Safety and Health Administration), eral statistics...•nformation 1s complete and ec:c:urat e." SECTION 1. Mine or group c011ered by this report. Name State____________
Report (issue)
09 ^ ALASKA C * - Accomplishments during 1978 Geological Survey Circular 804-B ALASKA Accomplishments...J. Collier) 2. Icing the runner of a sled, arctic Alaska, ca. 1910. (E. de K. Leffingwell) 3. Topographer...date. (R. H. Sargent) 4. Walter C. Mendenhall in Alaska, 1898. (A. H. Brooks) 5. Natives building rafts...9. D. A. Brew in Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, July 27, 1977. (B. R. Johnson) All photos except...Colorado. The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978 Kathleen M. Johnson
Report (issue)
Columbia and the Yukon Territory), 25 in Nevada, 9 in Alaska, and 7 deposits are listed in Texas, California...been reported in colors as diverse as white, cherry red, and green. Bedded barite deposits may exhibit primary...bedded iron deposits, or evaporitic sequences of gypsum, anhydrite or phosphate. Bedded barite is commonly...Kara-gaili in eastern Kazakhstan and in the Kara Kala district in Turkmen (Brobst, 1970). In Asia, additional...Cretaceous porphyritic tuff beds in the Chaeryong-gang district in North Korea. Other stratiform barite occurrences
Report (issue)
mineralized areas prior to mining, and conditions that result from mining and mineral processing. Other...as climate, and anthropogenic factors (including mining and mineral processing methods) mostly modify the...exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...from mining, mineral processing, and smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits
Map
1979 DIVISION OF INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY NM Mine File No.5705 Text accompanying Resource...directory 7 Commodity directory 12 Owner directory 14 Mine directory 15 ACTIVE PLANTS County directory 17 Commodity...Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY SOCORRO 1979 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...KATHY C. EDEN, Editorial Ckrk RoBERT W . EvELETH, Mining Engineer RoussEAU H. FLOWER, Sr. Emeritus Paleontologist...JACQUES R. RENAULT, Geologist }AMES l\1. RoBERTSON, Mining Geologist BARBARA RoBINSON, Geologist W. TERRY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit in Iran. Although there are some ancient mining activities at the Koushk area, this deposit was... dolomites and dolomitic limestones, and minor gypsum beds (Ramezani and Tucker, 2003; Rajabi et al....sequence is unconformably overlain by the Lowe Cambrian red sandstones and conglomerates (Lalun/Dahu Fm.) and...an almost N-S magmatic belt, in the west and northwest of the ZCB (Fig. 1b), and the nature of igneous...sequences have been identified in the Koushk mining district (Fig. 4): (a) an ore-bearing sequence that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered in 1955 by the Shahreza mining company by recognition of ancient mining traces. Extraction activities...1996, and the Fara Pars Qeshem Company resumed mining in 1996. During exploration drilling by this company...strike distance of 1,500 km from the southeast to northwest of Iran. The SSZ is characterized by widespread...northeastern areas, there is an unconformity and basal red conglomerate and sandstone, and in Koh-Kalandon area...of Ab-Bagh deposit, polymictic conglomerate and red sandstone (with thickness of 100 to 140 meters) overlie
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310 Pillsbury Drive S. E. Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Volumes 1 to 9 in this series appeared under the...are of considerable aid to the exploration and mining geologist in areas of known mineralization, but...advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, and to mining and exploration geologists. lowe no small debt.................. . 83 The Fresnillo Ag-Pb-Zn District, Zacatecas, Mexico .............................Massive Sulfide Deposits of the BathurstNewcastle District, New Brunswick, Canada Discussion of Tectonic
 
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