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Sphalerite from
Alpha Mine, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alpha Mine, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:576257
Long-form Identifier:1:3:576257:6
GUID (UUID V4):00c82a3c-d74e-4972-9a24-fa490543d012
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Iron Dome Occurrence, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Bright Light; Whistler Prospects, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Unnamed Prospect (ARDF - MM027; northeast of Brooker Mountain), Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Unnamed Prospect (ARDF - MM025; ridge northeast of Brooker Mountain), Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Bonnell Mine (Neversweat), Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Lucky Strike Prospect, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Galena Mine, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Friday; Star Mine (North Star), Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - MM096; lower Moose Creek canyon), Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Little Maud Prospect, Kantishna Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USA
References
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Report (issue)
AND VICINITY KANTISMA DISTRICT, ALASKA BY FRANCIS G. WELLS Investigations in Alaska Railroad belt, 1931...___________-______-__.__-...._-_..____..__ History of mining.____________________________________________ Character...veins._____--___----__--_--_-______----_-_ Galena-sphalerite veins._______________________________ Stibnite...Creek________-_____-__.___._..__...__.__._._._ Alpha-,___________-_-_-_-_-__--_-_________._________ Neversweat...28. Geologic map of Eureka and vicinity, Kantishna district. _ In pocket 29. Sketch map of lode claims
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--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Denali-MacLaren River area. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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
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to Superintendent of Documents.) • ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal...following U.S. Geological Survey offices: Residents of Alaska may order maps from U.S. Geological Survey, Earth...Twelfth Ave. - Box 12 Fairbanks, AK 99701 FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. ROLLA, Missouri—1400............................................... Sphalerite........................................................................................ Stage Alpha................................................
Report (issue)
RECONNAISSANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS IN EASTERN ALASKA 1952 This report concerns work done on behalf...RECONNAISSANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS IN EASTERN ALASKA 1952 By Arthur E. Nelson, Walter S. West, and John...ROCK CREEK PROSPECT 5 NABESNA MINE 6 ORANGE HILL 7 CHISANA DISTRICT (we fig. 2) 6 HOPE CREEK AREA...4) 10 CHANDALAR MINING DISTRICT (we fig. 5) 11 GOLD BENCH 12 FOKTYMILE DISTRICT (ie> fig. 6) Figure...Figure 1. Index map of eastern Alaska showing areas investigated in 1952. ii RECONNAISSANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE
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T5I California Convention 4 Yogo Sapphire Mine Reopened 4 Alpha Counters 5 Berkeley Cass iter ite "Nugget11...States. YOGO SAPPHIRE MINE REOPENED A REOPEN INC OF THE FAMED YOGO~ 'SAPP H I RE MINE, IN THE LITTLE BELT...scheduled TO BEGIN THIS MONTH, UNDER NEW OPERATORS. THE MINE HAS BEEN IDLE SINCE 1929, AFTER HAVING PRODUCED...Mountains The Yogo mine has the distinction of being the only lode vein SAPPHIRE MINE IN THE WORLD, SINCE...the Yogo deposit. 4 1 TWO NEW ALPHA COUNTERS TWO LOW-PRICED ALPHA COUNTERS, FOR THE DETECTION OF RADIOACTIVE
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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
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IN ALASKA Cover photographs, clockwise from the top: Geologists on Augustine Island, an active volcano...Bochum, W. Germany) Geologic mapping in central Alaska Helicopter being used in Survey activities Instruments...used in coastal work in Alaska The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during...south-central Brooks Range and in southeastern Alaska, by James R. LeCompte and Wm. Clinton Steele __...________________ National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska-data release, by Robert D. Carter________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the accumulation of He atoms produced by the alpha decay of U and Th. In the U-Th-He system, the chemical...as a rule, does not exceed a few microns [64]. Alpha particles produced from the decay of U and Th travel...the average Minerals 2020, 10, 629 3 of 20 alpha-stopping distance in uraninite is ~10 µm (calculations...deposit is located within the Verkhneuralsk ore district in the northern part of the East Magnitogorsk...ages of sericite from the Babaryk (Alexandrinka district, Figure 1) and Barsuchi Log (~380 km to the South)
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ASSESSMENT OF THE SLEETMUTE QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA by Marti L. Millerl, Harvey E. Belkin2, Robert...the U.S. Government. 1 Anchorage, Alaska 2 Reston, Virginia 3 Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical...Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, Alaska 4 Denver, Colorado 1989 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT...........RESOURCES ......................................... 45 Mining history..........................................quadrangle, Alaska.......... 4 2. Map showing land status in the Sleetmute quadrangle, Alaska....... 5
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THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA: ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING 1980 Geological Survey Circular...a reduction of part of the new geologic map of Alaska published in 1980 by the U.S. Geological Survey...Survey (Beikman, H. M., 1980, Geologic map of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Special Map, scale 1:2,500,000...compilation. The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1980 Warren l. Coonrad...results Introduction STATEWIDE ALASKA Tectonostratigraphic terrane map of Alaska, by David L. Jones, Norman
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NONMETALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS IN EASTERN SOUTHERN ALASKA TO ACCOMPANY OPEN-FILE MAP 77-169A This report...NONMETALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS IN EASTERN SOUTHERN ALASKA (To accompany open-file map 77-169A) By E. M....eastern southern Alaska. The table and accompanying map -are part of the Regional Alaska Minerals Resource...Resource Assessment Program (RAMRAP).for. southern Alaska. They are based on an extensive literature search...Geological Survey and information derived from the Alaska Minerals Resource Appraisal Program (AMRAP) were
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RADIOACTIVITY N. B. Kpovtr* AND MINERAL DEPOSITS Mining GeophysicsCorporalion, Toronlo, Canad.a Assrnecr...Urry (1935) and Urry (1936, p. 1217) * President, Mining Geophysics Corporation, physics, University of...with crystal dimensions greater than the range of alpha-rays, and with no excessivelocalization of radioactivity...averaged0.42 and.rangedin activity from 0.26 to 0.67 alpha-rays emitted per milligram per hour; similarly,...porphry collected by E. L. E]ru.rr from the Hollinger Mine averaged 0.47. The darker-colored varieties tended
Report (issue)
given to the mining of stibnite-bearing lodes, but it soon subsided. The Big Hurrah quartz mine is the only...was opened up on any considerable scale, and this mine was operated only from 1903 to 1908 and then not...underground work has been done at the Lost River tin mine, the Kougarok silver-lead property, and the gold...deposits, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. (in preparation). 163 164 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1920...Preliminary report on the Cape Nome gold region, Alaska, with maps and illustrations, by F. C. Schrader
Report (issue)
................................. The Tonopah district. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...:Minute textural features ........ ·......... . Alpha hypogene minerals ................... . General...General relations ....................... . Sphalerite ............................. . 9alena ................argentite .................... ; Replacement of sphalerite and galena by covellite or argentite or a mixture...Extension mine. II. A, B, Supposed hypogene veinlets of pyrargyrite, Tonopah Extension mine; C, Breccia
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.
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MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN THE LIVENGOOD QUADRANGLE, ALASKA SUPPLEMENT TO OPEN-FILE REPORT 76-819 PART A SUMMARIES...mineral occurrences in the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska (Cobb, E. H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral...construction materials) in the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-819...Geological Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...described in Part A the name, U.S. Bureau of Mines mining district, reference that has the occurrence plotted
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material from the Environmental problems caused by mining and abstraction activities for industrial minerals...Center Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA, stating the ISSN 0943-0105, the volume, and the...Dept. 333 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA North America. Recommended annual subscrip- tion...Secaucus, Tel. (201) Fax (201) All other NJ 07094, USA 348-4033, Telex 0023-125 994, 348-4505 countries...International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA Production PRODUserv Springer GmbH & Co. Produktions-Gesellschaft
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IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA ALASKA, 1945-47 and 1951 By H. R. Gault, P. L. Killeen...THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1945-47 and 1951 By H. R. Gault, P. L. Killeen...•.•........•.•......•..• 11 Geology and placer mining ....•......•....• 11 Radioactivity tests ...........•........ 18 CHAPTER D. --Buckland-Kiwalik district, 1947, by W. S. West and J. J. Matzke Abstract...Sweepstakes Creek and vicinity, Seward Peninsula, Alaska .......... In pocket Topographic map of part of
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From Franklin, .J. • Franklin — From Furnace to Borough www.FOMSNJ.org The contents of The Picking Table...10 Photo ditor TEMA J. HECHT From Furnace to Borough—Franklin’s Transformation, William R. Truran, PhD...Jersey Earth Science Association, the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, and the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical...Saturday evening at the GeoTech Center, Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Admission limited to 60 people. Social...AND SUNDAY, APRIL 27 AND 28, 2013 Sterling Hill Mining Museum Organized by the Delaware Valley Earth Science
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GEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE JUNEAU PROJECT AREA, ALASKA By Diane C. Nielsen, Susan L. Douglass, and David...Geological Bibliography of the Juneau Project Area, Alaska by Diane C. Nielsen, Susan L. Douglass, and David...references on the general geology of southeastern Alaska that have a bearing on the geology of the Juneau...lengthy and well-known history of prospecting, mining exploration and development, and ore production...include (1) Geo-Ref computer data files; (2) State of Alaska and U.S. Geological Survey publications; (3) published
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because of the incompleteness of geological and mining data for many deposits. The model is based on the...te+ferberite+scheelite; second phase (weak): sphalerite+tetrahedrite+ boulangerite+jamesonite+bournonite+chalcostibite...indicator of gold-antimony deposits. EXAMPLES Alpha-Gravelotte, SAFR Costerfield, AUVA Sarilakh, RUSA...only geological differences, but also the various mining conditions. (3) The antimony grades correlate with...Van Vuuren, C.J.J., and Viljoen, M.J., 1986, The Alpha-Gravelotte antimony ore body, Murchison greenstone
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URANOTHORITE IN FLUORITE BRECCIAS FROM THE BLUE JAY MINE, JAMESTOWN' BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADOI -q'NnKrvoro...INrnooucrrow The BIue Jay mine is one of the larger fluorite producers in the Jamestown district, Boulder county...colorado. GeorgePhair visited the second Ievel of this mine in September Ig4g, guided by R' U. King and H' C'...been found in a placer sample from the Ruby district, Alaska, emphasized the need for the specificdetermination...these were impure carbonates, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, iron oxides, uraninite, and uranothorite. The
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deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger, 1986). These minerals...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades in both areas. Sphalerite was identified
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DEPOSITS OF THE FAIRBANKS DISTRICT, ALASKA BY JAMES M. HILL Investigations in Alaska Railroad belt, 1931 (Pages...History of mining.__________________________________________ Economic factors affecting mining.________..._-__________-__-___-.__-_______ Future of lode mining.____________________________________________ Index...ILLUSTRATIONS ,:,.. Page PLATE 3. Map of the Fairbanks district, Alaska, showing geology, claims, ditches, and cultural..._______________________ In pocket 4. Claim map of Cleary Hill mine.._____.-..__-_.______._..__ 98 5. Plan and cross
 
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