Alaska
Occurrence

Misheguk Mountain--west

Alaska, United States
ChromiumPGENickel
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Commodities
PrimaryChromium, PGE
SecondaryNickel
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model15: Podiform chromite (minor)
Materials
Ore mineralsChromite, Garnierite
Geology
Host rockSerpentinite
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10003143
MRDS IDA015675
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates68.24948, -161.06372
References
Degenhart, C.E., Griffis, R.J., McQuat, J.F., and Bigelow, C.G., 1978, Mineral studies of the western Brooks Range performed under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract #JO155089: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 103-78, 529 p., 11 sheets.Grybeck, D.J., 1977, Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-166C, 41 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.Green, C.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Peterson, R.J., Seward, A.F., Deagen, J.R., and Burton, J.E., 1989, Alaska's mineral industry 1988: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report 43, 79 p.Cobb, E.H., Mayfield, C.F., and Brosge, W.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in eleven quadrangles in northern Alaska (Arctic, Baird Mountains, Chandler Lake, DeLong Mountains, Demarcation Point, Howard Pass, Misheguk Mountain, Mount Michelson, Noatak, Point Lay, and Table Mountain); Supplement to Open-File Report 75-628; Part A, Summaries of data to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-767-A, 25 p.