Chromite occurrences and a nickel prospect, Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska

Open-File Report 44-80
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Abstract

This report presents the results of a brief geologic reconnaissance of some of the chromite-bearing sills between Red Bluff Bay and Silver Bay in central Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska (see figs. 1 and 2), and the results of a magnetic study of a chromite body in the ultrabasic rocks at Red Bluff Bay. Also included are the results of a brief examination of a nickel prospect near Sitka.

The field work, upon which this report is largely based, was done by the authors in the early part of August 1943 as a part of a Geological Survey project to investigate some of the ultrabasic rocks of southeastern Alaska to determine the presence or absence in them of significant nickel-copper or chromium deposits. Previous studies of some of the chromite-bearing ultrabasic rocks of Baranof Island were made by Guild and Balsley during the summer of 1941.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Chromite occurrences and a nickel prospect, Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 44-80
DOI 10.3133/ofr4480
Year Published 1944
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 4 p.
Country United States
State Alaska
Other Geospatial Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska
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