Alaska's strategic minerals
Journal Article
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· Alaska Geogr.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5404649
Since the turn of the century, Alaska has added significant amounts of strategic and critical materials, including platinum (Alaska is the largest US producer), cobalt, nickel, chromium, tin, tungsten, antimony, mercury, and fluorite, to US mineral production. Strategic minerals are essential to national defense for which the US is wholly or partly dependent on imports. Critical minerals are also essential to national defense but, in war time, their procurement is difficult but less serious than that of strategic minerals. The author evaluates strategic minerals, the exploration of which indicates economic or near-economic Alaskan reserves. Exploitation seems possible during the next 10 to 20 y. Production, reserves, and resources of selected Alaskan strategic minerals are tabulated. 1 figure, 2 tables.
- Research Organization:
- Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Juneau, AK
- OSTI ID:
- 5404649
- Journal Information:
- Alaska Geogr.; (United States), Journal Name: Alaska Geogr.; (United States) Vol. 9:4; ISSN ALGED
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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