Alaska accounts for only two small uranium deposits, one is located at the Bokan Mountain in southern Alaska as will be discussed below, and another in the Death Valley area on Seward Peninsula in NW Alaska (>Fig. I.1).
The deposit in Death Valley hosts uranium mineralization in Eocene continental sandstone in the southern end of a graben that extends northward into the Death Valley Basin on the eastern flanks of the Darby Mountains. The sandstone contains coal and other carbonaceous matter and is partly covered by basalt. Meta-autunite is the most common U mineral; coffinite was identified in reduced ground. Reported resources amount to some 400 t U at an average grade of 0.23% U (Dickinson et al. 1987).
1 10.1 Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska
Bokan Mountain is located near Kendrick Bay at the southeastern end of the Prince of Wales Island, in the southern part of the Alaskan panhandle. Discovered in 1955, the Bokan Mountain deposit was exploited by the...
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Armstrong 1986; Collot 1981; de Saint-André et al. 1983, 1984; Dickinson et al. 1987; Dickson 1982; Johnson et al. 1979; Lancelot and de Saint-Andre 1982; Lanphere et al. 1964; Mackevett 1958, 1963; Miller and Bunker 1976; Singer and Ovenshine 1979; Stephens 1971; Staatz 1978; Thompson et al. 1980, 1982; Turner et al. 1977.
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(2010). Alaska. In: Dahlkamp, F.J. (eds) Uranium Deposits of the World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78943-7_11
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