Mine detail: Snow Creek Uranium Prospect

Previously called 'Foster Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

41.60515, -118.72434

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium, Molybdenum
Ore:	Coffinite
Gangue:	Barite, Chalcedony, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Slate,Metavolcanic Rock,Phyllite
Associated type:	Diorite,Granite
Structure:	High Angle Ne Fault 2 Km Se Of Occurrence, Steeply-Dipping Ene Shears And Alaskitic Dikes
Tectonic:	Mobile Belt
Alteration processes:	Argillic, Sericitic, And Silicification

References

MRDS	M242875
DEP	10047515
Reference	{Deposit:: CASTOR, S.B. AND MITCHELL, T.P., 1980, REPORT OF URANIUM OCCURRENCE.}{Deposit:: USAEC PRELIM. RECONN. REPORT 3485.}{Deposit:: QUADE, JACK, 29 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.}{Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3. #5. GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, NBMG BULL. 81, P. 59. #6. BENNETT, REB E., 1974, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BLUE LAKE PROPOSED PRIMITIVE AREA, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)