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Tourmaline from
Ear Mountain, York Range, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ear Mountain, York Range, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:567897
Long-form Identifier:1:3:567897:6
GUID (UUID V4):017ff5f8-94aa-42b5-a4c2-8760ec047c83
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
3.7km (2.3 miles) Ear Mountain; North Hill; Winfield shaft Prospect, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
51.9km (32.2 miles) Kougarok prospect, Serpentine Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) Black Mountain Prospect, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
55.1km (34.3 miles) York Creek Occurrence (West), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
57.7km (35.9 miles) Third Of July Prospect, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
58.7km (36.5 miles) Brooks Mountain, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
59.7km (37.1 miles) Unnamed Prospect (ARDF - TE056; on western side of Brooks Mountain), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
62.8km (39.0 miles) Dalcoath Dike Prospect, Lost River Valley, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
63.5km (39.5 miles) Hidden Dike Prospect, Lost River Valley, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) Greisen Prospect (on Tin Creek), Lost River Valley, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
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Report (volume)
........................................ Cape Mountain ...................................................................................... Brooks Mountain............................................................................................ Ear Mountain.........................................................'............................ 40 Tourmaline................................................of Seward Peninsula, showing position of York region, Alaska.........................................
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT POINTING...____ Slates near York_____- _____ _ __ __ Port Clarence limestone-- . 5 7 S 9 10 10 10 12 Limestone...________ ___ Lodes __________________ _____ ___ Ear Mountain________..__________.-_ __ : Introduction...Other mineral deposits______1..______________ 58 Alaska Chief property__________________ 58 Idaho clai...II. A, Thin section of paigeite hornfels; B, Port Clarence limestone near head of Cassiterite Creek_ .
Report (issue)
SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA By C. L. Sainsbury...-----Lost River -Brooks Mountain area .. _ King River _______________________ Area east of Tin Creek.---...---.-------Ear Mountain _______________--_--Cape Mountain _________----_-_--__ Potato Mountain ________--___----_Black...________--___----_Black Mountain..-----------------Suggestions for prospecting ----------Selected bibliography...Figure 1. Map of the western Seward Peninsula, Alaska, showing areas of known and potential beryllium
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 733 GEOLOGY OF THE YORK TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY EDWARD STEIDTMANN AND S. H. CATHCART...of report_ Acknowledgments Geography Location and area _ Topography _____ ___ . Drainage________-___ a...Summary of geologic history _ _ ______ Slate of the York region __________________________ General characteristics..._ _ Limestone of the York Mountains _________________ Limestone of Cape Mountain _________________ _ Structural...Mineralogy ________________.__________________ Lost River area ____________ __________________ Geographic feat
Report (issue)
placers of the ancient beach about 3 miles north of Nome. Although extensions of this beach have been uncovered...field season of 1907. 6 Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 259, 1905, pp...Mofflt, F. H., Gold mining in Seward Peninsula: Bull. No. 284, 1906, pp. 132141; The Nome region : Bull. No...first discovered, between Snake and Nome rivers.- But, as the mining of placers goes on with much rapidity...had some effect in reducing the output of the district. One of these minor causes was the labor trouble
Report (issue)
RADIOACTIVITY INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA ABASKA, 1946 u.•. PUElLit.l I...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1946 By Robert M. Moxham and. Walter...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1946 By Robert M. Moxham and Walter...Location and extent of area . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . Physical conditions in the area. . . . . • . • ...and schist .....•.•.••....•••.......•....... Port Clarence limestone . . . . • . . • . • • • . . • . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
24 August 2017 By FRANK H. WASKEY Dillingham, Alaska Eighteen Hundred & Ninety-Seven saw the Press...world heralding the arrival at that then somnolent port of the "Ton of Gold" from the Klondike. The spring...1898 also saw the beginning of placer mining near Nome, Alaska; 1899's summer came and there were hundreds...Beach and its easy wealth brought in 1900 the great Nome rush. During June of that fabled year more than...miners landed on that quartz-streaked shore of Alaska. Many of those thousands, expressing their disappointment
Report (volume)
Placer Deposits of Alaska By EDWARD H. COBB GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1374 An inventory of the...the placer mines and prospects of Alaska, their history and geologic setting UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...and method of presentation __ Definitions _-____ Alaska Peninsula region Aleutian Islands region ________...Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district...district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _ Chistochina district Nelchina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the Lost River and Mount Ear Ore Field, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, United States S. M. Aleksandrov...tungsten, beryllium, and fluorite deposits of the York Range, Seward Peninsula, represent the continuation...of dolomites and limestones of the Paleozoic Port Clarence Formation at the contact with the Mesozoic leuco...results of studying the skarns and ores of the Alaska deposits are of great applied and scientific significance...fluorite deposits of the York Range, the Seward Peninsula, and Northwest ern Alaska are the largest deposits
Report (volume)
Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska GEOLOGICAL O GC oc O es...Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska By C. L. SAINSBURY GEOLOGICAL...stratigraphy, petrology, and ore deposits of an area containing tin deposits and a new type of beryllium...rocks___________________________________________ Slate of the York region-____________________________________ Argillaceous...central York Mountains. 2. Diagram showing variation in oxides in igneaus rocks of the York Mountains
Report (volume)
Metalliferous Lode Deposits and Placer Districts of Alaska By WARREN j. NOKLEBERG, THOMAS K. BUNDTZEN, HENRY...metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786 Bibliography...No.: 119.3:1786 1. Placer deposits-Alaska. 2. Ore deposits-Alaska. I. Nokleberg, Warren j. II. Series...COVER Mill buildings at Kennecott, Alaska. The Kennecott district Cu-Ag mines in the Wrangell Mountains...deposit description for Kennecott district (number 30 for southern Alaska). Copyrighted drawing used by permission
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KNOPF. XNTRODUCTORY. The known tin depositsof Alaska that promise some future commercialimportance are...parts of Alaska. At presentfour localitiesare beingprospected for tin. They are included in an area of 4o0...situated about•oo milesnorthwestof the city of Nome,the supplypoint of the region. In geographicorder...four localitiesare Ear Mountain, Buck Creek, Cape Mountain and Lost River. Ear Mountain occupiesan isolatedposition40...milesnorth of the others,which are groupedtogetherin the York region at the western end of the continent. The
Report (issue)
ON AN APPRAISAL OF THE URANIUM POSSIBILITIES OF ALASKA* By Helmuth Wedow9 Max G 0 White, and Robert M0...authors 7 opinions of the uranium possibilities of Alaska through March 1951 S the date of the completion............ York district .................. Lost River area .............. Brooks Mountain ................. Potato Mountain .............. Sar Mountain ............... Cape Mountain ............... Uranium...Uranium possibilities of the York district . Nome district .................. . Uranium- possibilities ..
Report (volume)
OF SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA INCLUDING THE NOME, COUNCIL, KOUGAROK, PORT CLARENCE, AND GOODHOPE PRECINCTS...H. BROOKS__________________ DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY, BY ALFRED H. BROOKS_____ Foreword __...13 J9 24 28 Growth of mining from 1902 to 1904___________________ 31 Mining developments in 1905-6_..._ 69 Nome group______________________________ 70 General description_____________________ 70 Port Clarence...schists of Fairhaven precinct_____ 79 Slates in the York region__________________ 79 Limestone near Pala
Report (issue)
HAKEINGTON. SUMMARY OF MINING OPERATIONS. t A resume of the history of tin mining in Alaska up to 1914 has been...production of cassiterite. from placer operations in the York region since 1902. In 1911 a dredge was installed...streams of the Nome district." Hess mentions 3 that Goldbottom Creek in the Nome district, Fred Gulch,...of Ears Mountain carry some stream tin." Cassiterite lodes were discovered at Cape Mountain in 1902 and...and on Lost Eiver the following year. Mining operations have been carried on at both localities ever
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralization of the KougarokSn Deposit, Seward Peninsula,Alaska CHRISTOPHER C. PUCHNER* AnacondaMineralsCompany...increasingdestructionof igneoustexture,consistof sericite-tourmaline, brownzinnwaldite-sericite, white zinnwaldite-sericite...rangingfrom lessthan0.10 percentin thesericite-tourmaline zoneto over1.0 percentin thequartz+_tourmalinegreisen...Serpentine Hot Springsarea (Hudson, 1977, 1979), at Ear Mountain (Bond, 1983), and at THEKougaroktin deposit...deposit,locatedapproximately 130 that km north of Nome, is one of seven areasof known tin the Kougarokdeposit(Apel
Report (issue)
TIN RESOURCES OF ALASKA. By FRANK L. HESS. The peculiar deficiency of the United States in tin deposits...interest. Tin was first discovered in Alaska on Buhner Creek, Mar York, OH Seward Peninsula, in 1900. It...tributary of Lost River, about 100 miles northwest of Nome. Later, stream tin was found in small quantity in...on Gold Bottom Creek, 20 miles north of Nome; at Ear Mountain, in the northern part of Seward Peninsula;...discovered on Lost River, float ore was found on Cape Mountain, near Cape Prince of Wales, and later was found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
46-61 Petrogenesisof the Ear MountainTin Granite, SewardPeninsula,Alaska SAMUELE. SWANSON,JAMESF. BOND...Geophysical Institute,Universityof Alaska,Fairbanks,Alaska99775 Abstract Ear Mountainis part of a belt of...followedby equigranularand fine-grainedtwo-mica tourmaline-bearing granite.Late unitsare enrichedin B, F...depletedin Ti. A greisenalterationassemblage of tourmaline-quartz-cassiterite-white mica+_magnetite +_pyrite...Temperatureestimatesbasedon feldspargeothermometry range from 624 ø to 501øC and are closeto the solidustemperature
Report (volume)
Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska By HENRY C. BERG and EDWARD H. COBB . G E O L O G I C A L S...A n inventory of the mines and )- grosfiects of Alaska and their ' f geologic settings UNITED STATES...acknowledgments--- - - - - - ----- - - - -- - -- 4 Alaska Peninsula region- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -...- - - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - 16 Redoubt district--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 Valdez Creek area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
SURVEY Metallogeny and Major Mineral Deposits of Alaska by 1 Thomas K. BundtzenS 7 Henry C. Berg 0"3 ,...endorsement by the U.S.G.S. ' U.S. Geological Survey ^ Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...unpublished data on metalliferous mineral deposits of Alaska, and on recent and older published articles and... universities, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys... Andersen, Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska Roger P. Ashley, U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...NORTHEASTERN RUSSIA METALLOGENESIS OF MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Noklebergl...and Richard D. Koch 1 1-U.S. Geological Survey ^-Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-339 PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...LODE DEPOSITS AND PLACER DISTRICTS FOR MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Nokleberg1
Report (volume)
Radioactivity Investigations At Ear Mountain Seward Peninsula Alaska, 1945 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN... Radioactivity Investigations At Ear Mountain Seward Peninsula Alaska, 1945 By P L KILLEEN and R J ORDWAY...ORDWAY MINERAL GEOLOGICAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF ALASKA BULLETIN 1024-C This report concerns work done...ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates 10, 11 m pocket) 10 Sketch map of Ear Mountam, and vicimty, showmg locat10ns of Sites where...concentrates were obtamed 11 Geologic sketch map of Ear Mountam, showmg stat10ns where surface radwactivity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tin-tantalum-lithium prospect, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA Serguei G. Soloviev 1 & Sergey Kryazhev 2 &...lamprophyric) mafic magma into a crystallizing biotite-tourmaline granite magma reservoir may have supplied a geochemically...Bsuspension.^ Biotite-tourmaline granite was accompanied by early quartz-tourmaline-cassiterite greisen...stable during the post-magmatic stage, in quartz-tourmaline+topaz greisen and higher-temperature quartz-albite-Li... Russia Introduction The Kougarok prospect in Alaska is characterized by intense Ta-Nb-Li and Sn mineralization
Journal (issue)
.... 124 AN EPSOMITE OCCURRENCE IN THE TINTIC DISTRICT, UT AH. By Fred F. Mei.rsne,· ..................FLUORITE IN LIMESTONE QUARRIES OF ST. LOUIS, MO. AREA By J. A . Schra11t, Jr. ................................................. ... 139 SAMPLING CAPE MOUNTAIN CASSITERI1'E. By Leo H . Satz ..................creek) . Later, when a settlement sprang up in the area tbe good citizens thougli it most appropriate that...calcite. rocks, a usual manner of occurrence in this area. The pegmatite mass of the Ytterby mine is composed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
140 ROCKS AND MINERALS SAMPLING CAPE MOUNTAIN CASSITERITE By LEO H. SATZ I little realized when I...Fairbanks Office as "foreman sampler" that I would be "mining" ice with an Eskimo Crew, 60 miles from the coast...cassiterite in a mine abandoned since 1906. Spring in Alaska is a time of accelerated activity, and was especially...graduated from the School of Mines of the University of Alaska and still holding a few months left on our selective...any promise were located in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. These had been extensively prospected during the
 
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