Mine detail: Steel Smith Mica Mine

Previously called 'Levi Anderson'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.87516, -116.57133

Resource(B)

Primary: Mica
Secondary: Beryllium
Ore: Beryl, Muscovite
Gangue: Biotite, Quartz
Orebody form: PIPE-LIKE, LENTICULAR
Discovery year: 1895

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1910

Geology

Host rock:Belt Supergroup
Host type:Mafic Intrusive Rock,Gneiss
Associated rock:Pegmatite
Associated type:Pegmatite
Structure:Steeply Dipping W Limb Of Anticline Of Great Width, Minor Folds Or Rolls In Lens Contacts; Schistosity Strikes N 30 Deg E, Dips 85 Deg Nw
Alteration processes:Albitization, Silicification, Muscovitization

References

MRDSW015900
DEP10072071
Reference{Deposit:: STOLL, W. C., 1950, MICA AND BERYL PEGMATITES IN IDAHO AND MONTANA: USGS PROF. PAPER 229, 64 P.}{Deposit:: HUBBARD, C. R., 1957, MINERAL RESOURCES OF LATAH COUNTY: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPT. 2, 29 P.}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, A. L., 1925, MICA DEPOSITS OF LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 14, 14 P.}{Deposit:: PATTEE, E. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, BERYLLIUM RESOURCES OF IDAHO, WASHINGTON, MONTANA, AND OREGON: US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 7148, P. 25, 39.}{Deposit:: 5) REED, G. C., 1946 EXPLORATION OF THE AVON MICA DISTRICT, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO: US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 3898, P. 16-17.}{Deposit:: 1925 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 14}{Deposit:: 1943 DIREXPL US BUR MINES, REPT. INV. 3898}{Deposit:: 1943 RECON W. C. STOLL, PROF. PAPER 229}{Deposit:: 1957 OTHER IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY CO. REPT. 2}{Production:: HUBBARD, C. R., 1957, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY CO. REPT. 2. { STOLL, W. C., 1950, USGS PROF. PAPER 229, 64 P. { PATTEE, E. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 7148, P. 25.}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.