Mine detail: Crystal Mountain Fluorspar Mine

Previously called 'Crystal Mountain Mine Retirement GroupLumberjack Outcrops'

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Location: Ravalli County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 46.00572, -113.8876
dep_id: 10069419
mrds_id: W006948
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Minor mineral: Cobalt, Nickel
Trace mineral: REE, Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Fluorite
gangue: Quartz, Sericite
orebody_fm: TABULAR LENTICULAR
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G., Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.)
hrock_type: Gneiss,Granite
arock_type: Granite
Year first produced: 1952
disc_yr: 1937
discr: L. I. Thompson, A. E. Cumley
References:
  • Deposit:: MBMG BULL 28, P. 5-11.
  • Deposit:: USBM REP INVES 4916.
  • Deposit:: MINING WORLD, V 15, NO 7, P. 43-46.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 1074-B, P. 19-21.
  • Deposit:: MBMG BULL 8, P. 22, 55-57.
  • Deposit:: MBMG BULL 109, P. 26.
  • Deposit:: 1951 DIREXPL U. S. BU MINES, LUMBERJACK O. C. OUTLINE
  • Production:: USBM MIN. YBK, 1952-1972., MBMG BULL 8., MBMG BULL 28.
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