Cape Darby

Location: Alaska, United States (64.385, -162.796 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements; uranium; tungsten

Deposit model: unclassified

Exploration and site history

• History: No lode mines were operating in the Darby Mountains during 1948. There is evidence that lode prospecting, probably for copper and gold, has been carried on in the past along the coast of Norton Bay between Carson and Walla Walla Creeks, but no deposits of economic importance were discovered. The only lode prospect of any significance in the entire Darby Mountains is a, silver-lead prospect on Omilak Creek, a tributary to the Fish River, in the northwestern part of the range. The prospect, which lies outside the area covered in plate 1, was not visited. (West (1953))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.