Mine detail: Monumental Summit Rare - Earth Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

44.90018, -115.27986

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Manganese, REE
Ore:	Rhabdophane
Gangue:	Barite
Discovery year:	1966

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Yellowjacket Formation-Quartzite, Schist, Calcareous Rock
Host type:	Quartzite,Schist,Clastic Sedimentary Rock,Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Challis Volcanics-Rhyolite;Idaho Batholith-Granitic Rocks
Associated type:	Rhyolite

References

MRDS	W013987
DEP	10070868
Reference	{Deposit:: CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1304, 431 P}{Deposit:: 1966 GEOCHEM}{Deposit:: 1971 DIREXPL YELLOW HILLS MINING CO., USGS BULL. 1304}{Deposit:: 1973 RECON CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, BULL. 1304}{Reserve-Resource:: CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, 1973, USGS BULL. 1304, 431 P.}
Reporter	Miller, Pat J.