Mine detail: Beaverhead

Previously called 'Lucky Strike No. 1 Mine Staatz Loc. No. 64'

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Location

Lat / long:

44.94961, -113.43979

Resource(M)

Primary:	Thorium
Secondary:	Uranium
Ore:	Thorite
Gangue:	Goethite, Hematite, Specularite
Orebody form:	LENS - ZONE

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Argillite,Sandstone
Structure:	Silicified Rock Is Fractured And Minutelt Veined With Specularite
Alteration processes:	Host Rock Is Silicified To Quartzose

References

MRDS	DC09160
DEP	10019247
Reference	{Deposit:: SAHINEN, UM, 1955, MONT. B.M. AND GEOL. INF. CIRC. 6, P. 8.}{Deposit:: TRITES AND TOOKER, 1953 , URANIUM AND THORIUM DEPOSITS IN EAST-CENTRAL IDAHO AND SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA, USGS BULL 988-H.}{Deposit:: SHARP, W. N., AND CAVENDER, W. S., 1962 , GEOLOGY AND THORIUM-BEARING DEPOSITS OF THE LEMHI PASS AREA, LEMHI CO., IDA AND BEAVERHEAD, MONT. USGS BULL 1126 .}{Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-07-1963}{Deposit:: 5) STAATZ, M. H., 1972 , GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE THORIUM BEARING VEIN, LEMHI PASS QUADRANGLE, IDAHO AND MONTANA, USGS BULL 1351 .}{Deposit:: 1953 GEOLMAP TRITES AND TOOKER USGS BULL 988-H}{Deposit:: 1962 GEOLMAP SHARP AND CAUENDER, USGS BULL 1126}{Deposit:: 1972 GEOLMAP GEACH, MONT. BUR OF M. & G. BULL 85}{Deposit:: 1972 GEOLMAP STAATZ, M. H., USGS BULL 1351}
Reporter	Unknown, Doyle, Brien (Wells, John)