Mine detail: Snowbird

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Location

Lat / long:

46.77738, -114.79514

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary:	Quartz
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Calcite, Gersdorffite, Pyrite, Xenotime
Orebody form:	POD

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Hydrothermal Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1956

Geology

Host type:	Quartzite,Argillite,Limestone
Structure:	Ne To Nw Strike, Shear Zone 6 M Thick At East End Of Deposit
Tectonic:	Between Idaho Batholith On The South And The Montana Lineament On The North

References

MRDS	W014742
DEP	10071392
Reference	{Deposit:: SAHINEN, U. M., 1962, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN MONTANA: MONT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 28, P. 11-14}{Deposit:: METZ, M. C., 1971, THE GEOLOGY OF THE SNOWBIRD DEPOSIT, MINERAL COUNTY, MONTANA: UNPUB. M.S. THESIS WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, 93 P.}{Production:: MINERALS YEARBOOK AND SAHINEN, 1962, P. 12}
Reporter	Berg, Richard B. (Krohn, D. H.)