Deposit

Dora Bay

Dora Bay 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 (55.168, -132.244 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements

Deposit model: REE-Th bearing veins · Th-REE veins

Geology

Pegmatite dikes, vein-dikes, silica-rich veins and disseminated eudialyte, all containing REE, are associated with an intrusive complex of peralkaline granite, syenite and nepheline syenite. (Barker and Van Gosen (2012))

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