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Open-File Report 2014–1037

A Geochemical Perspective of Red Mountain—An Unmined Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit in the Alaska Range

By Stuart A. Giles and Robert G. Eppinger

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has investigated the environmental geochemistry of a group of unmined volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits in the Bonnifield mining district, Alaska Range, east-central Alaska. The spectacularly colored Red Mountain deposit is the best exposed of these and provides excellent baseline geochemical data for natural environmental impacts of acidic rock drainage, metal dissolution and transport, and acidic salt and metal precipitation from an exposed and undisturbed VMS deposit.

First posted April 16, 2014

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Suggested citation:

Giles, S.A., and Eppinger, R.G., 2014, A geochemical perspective of Red Mountain—An unmined volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in the Alaska Range: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1037, 1 plate, https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141037.

ISSN 2331-1258 (online)




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