Mine detail: Sunshine Claim

Previously called 'AtlasViolet'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.90456, -116.56493

Resource(N)

Tertiary: Mica
Ore: Muscovite
Gangue: Feldspar, Garnet
Orebody form: LENTICULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Belt Supergroup
Host type:Schist,Pegmatite
Associated rock:Pegmatite
Associated type:Pegmatite
Structure:Steeply Dipping W Limb Of Anticline Of Great Width
Alteration processes:Albitization, Silicification, Muscovization

References

MRDSW015901
DEP10089300
Reference{Deposit:: STOLL, W. C., 1950, MICA AND BERYL PEGMATITES IN IDAHO AND MONTANA: USGS PROF. PAPER 229, 64 P.}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, A. L., 1925, MICA DEPOSITS OF LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 14, 14 P.}{Deposit:: STERRETT, D. B., 1913, MICA IN IDAHO, NEW MEXICO, AND COLORADO: USGS BULL. 530, P. 377-383.}{Deposit:: 1910 RECON D. B. STERRETT, BULL. 530}{Deposit:: 1925 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 14}{Deposit:: 1943 RECON W. C. STOLL, PROF. PAPER 229}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.