Deposit

Unnamed (near Salmon River)

Unnamed (near Salmon River) is a rare earth occurrence in Alaska, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Alaska, United States (58.067, -134.452 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements; zinc; niobium; titanium; zinc; arsenic; strontium; thorium; yttrium; zirconium

Deposit model: unclassified

Geology

Pegmatite veins containing Y, Zr, Nb, Th and REE's La, Ce, Pr, and Nd associated with granite, migmatite, and contact-metamorphic rocks. (Berg (1960))

Exploration and site history

Exploration — Active claims at this site, 1985 (Wells and others (1985))

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

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass