Mine detail: Lee Buck Group

Previously called 'Lee Buck No. 3 ClaimSquaw Creek ProspectLee-Buck Claims'

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Location

Lat / long:

45.45016, -114.23232

Resource(M)

Primary:	Niobium (Columbium), REE, Thorium
Tertiary:	Titanium
Ore:	Allanite, Chalcopyrite, Ilmenite, Monazite, Rutile
Gangue:	Actinolite, Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Orebody form:	PINCH AND SWELL, PODS, LENSES, IRREGULAR BUNCHES

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Belt Supergroup
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss

References

MRDS	W015392
MAS	160590013
DEP	10071820
Reference	{Deposit:: Anderson, A. L., 1958, Uranium, Thorium, Columbium, And Rare Earth Deposits In The Salmon Region, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 115, 81 P.}{Deposit:: Sturm, F. H., 1954, General Geology Of Some Replacement Monazite Deposits In Lemhi County, Idaho: Moscow, Idaho,, Univ. Of Idaho, M. S. Thesis, 64 P.}{Deposit:: 1954 Direxpl Molybdenum Corp. Of America}{Deposit:: 1956 Direxpl Union Carbide Corp.}{Deposit:: 1958 Recon Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 115}{Deposit:: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geol. Pamphlet 99, 1954, P. 15-16.}
Reporter	Miller, Pat J., Ridenour, James