Mine detail: Camp Creek Corundum

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Location: Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.10157, -112.52226
dep_id: 10010812
mrds_id: D004796
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Corundum
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Metamorphic
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Corundum
gangue: Calcite, Chlorite, Magnetite, Margarite, Sericite
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
Reporter: Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.)
hrock_unit: Pre Belt
hrock_type: Schist
Structure: Two Narrow, Vertical Diabase Dikes Cut Across The Corundum Lenses And The Schist
disc_yr: 1949
discr: E.W. Heinrich
References:
  • Deposit:: GEACH, R.D., 1972, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, BEAVERHEAD CO., MT: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 85, P. 15
  • Deposit:: 1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 8
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