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Critical mineral veins

By Alaska Science Center
Gray with bits of white cylinder-shaped vein intersected in drill core. Silver pencil next to core for size.
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A fluorite-lepidolite-wolframite vein intersected in drill core from the Lost River Sn-W mine, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Lepidolite is a lithium-bearing mica, and wolframite an ore of tungsten.

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Photo by George Case, U.S. Geological Survey

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Snow field on side of mountain next to stream with orange rocks. Vegetation is on both sides of Graphite Creek.

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