Mine detail: Lightning Upper Pit Mine

Previously called 'CopperiteLittle Bill Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

44.31628, -114.87623

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Secondary:	Antimony
Ore:	Pitchblende, Stibnite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:	Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Idaho Batholith, Faulting And Fracturing.
Alteration processes:	Oxidation

References

MRDS	W014193
MAS	160370346
DEP	10105688
Reference	{Deposit:: Choate, Raoul, 1962, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Stanley Area: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 126, 120 P}{Deposit:: Kern, B.F., State Of Idaho Pamphlet No. 117, P. 24-25}{Production:: Choate, R., 1962, Idaho Bureau Of Mines Pamphlet 126, P. 50.}
Reporter	Western Field Operations Center (WFOC), Yett, Jay R.; Miller, Pat