Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - MH359; near Gillett Pass), Chistochina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - MH359; near Gillett Pass) | - not defined - |
Chistochina Mining District | Mining District |
Valdez-Cordova Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
63° 4' 33'' North , 144° 16' 51'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Slana | 147 (2011) | 44.1km |
Mindat Locality ID:
201324
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:201324:7
GUID (UUID V4):
568f7706-e837-47de-a35a-dff9f4c38daf
Location: The occurrence is about 1.2 miles west of Gillett Pass at an elevation of about 4,200 feet. It is in the SW1/4SE1/4 section 16, T. 15 N., R. 6 E., Copper River Meridian. It corresponds to locality 6 of Richter (1967), locality 32 on figure 6 of Cobb (1979 [OFR 79-238]), locality 53 of MacKevett and Holloway (1977), and locality 144 in table 2 of Nokleberg and others (1991). The location is a general one in a dunite body that is exposed for a strike length of about 2 miles.
Geology: Low-grade chromite deposits occur in a lenticular body of dunite about 2 miles long and one-half mile wide; the dunite is a near-vertical body within the Denali Fault zone (Richter, 1967). The dunite is partly enclosed by amphibolite and pyroxenite that extend to the east beyond the dunite mass. Chromite occurs in gneissoid layers in the ultramafic rocks. On the basis of representative samples, the dunite contains about 1.2 percent chromic oxide and 0.4 percent nickel. The nickel possibly occurs in olivine and its alteration products. At places chromite is segregated into massive lenses. The largest lens found by Richter (1967) was about 1 foot long and 2 inches thick, but he noted that the body was poorly exposed and that larger bodies of chromite could exist. No samples were analyzed for platinum group metals.
Workings: There are no workings.
Age: Late Triassic (?).
Alteration: Serpentinization of dunite.
Commodities (Major) - Cr; (Minor) - Ni
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Chromite disseminated in layered mafic-ultramafic complex (Cox and Singer, 198
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Chromite Formula: Fe2+Cr3+2O4 |
ⓘ Pyrrhotite Formula: Fe1-xS |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Chromite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Cr3+2O4 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Chromite | Fe2+Cr23+O4 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
Cr | Chromium | |
Cr | ⓘ Chromite | Fe2+Cr23+O4 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Chromite | Fe2+Cr23+O4 |
Fe | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
Other Databases
Link to USGS - Alaska: | MH359 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
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