Mine detail: Main Diggings Prospects

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Location

Lat / long: 44.29708, -114.91234

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Uranium
Gangue: Chalcedony
Orebody form: LINEAR

Production

Operation type: Surface
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite;Pegmatite, Rhyolite Dikes
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Rhyolite
Structure:Idaho Batholith
Alteration processes:Partial Silicification

References

MRDSW014146
MAS160370353
DEP10070981
Reference{Deposit:: Choate, Raoul, 1962, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Stanley Area, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 126, 120 P.}{Deposit:: Tschanz, C. M., And Others, 1974, Mineral Resources Of The Eastern Part Of The Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Custer And Blaine Counties, Idaho: USGS Open - File Rept., 648 P.}{Deposit:: Kern, B. F., 1959, Geology Of The Uranium Deposits Near Stanley, Custer County: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 117, 40 P.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 360, P. 188.}
ReporterYett, Jay R.; Miller, Pat, McHugh, Edward L.