Mine detail: Vaught - Columbite Mine

Previously called 'ColumbitePeck'

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Location

Lat / long: 44.01294, -115.9229

Resource(B)

Primary: Niobium (Columbium), Mica
Tertiary: REE, Uranium, Feldspar, Silica
Ore: Columbite, Microcline, Monazite, Muscovite
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: LENS
Discovery year: 1900

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1900

Geology

Host type:Pegmatite
Associated rock:Granite Pegmatite;Idaho Batholith-Granodiorite
Associated type:Pegmatite

References

MRDSW014411
DEP10105709
Reference{Deposit:: FRYKLUND, V. C. JR., 1951, A RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME IDAHO FELDSPAR DEPOSITS: IDA. BUREAU OF MINES & GEOL. PAMPH 91, 30 P.}{Deposit:: LESURE, F. G., 1964, MINERAL RESOURCES - MICA AND ASSOCIATED PEGMATITE MINERALS, IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1, P. 123-133.}{Deposit:: STOLL, W. C., 1950, MICA AND BERYL PEGMATITES IN IDAHO AND MONTANA: USGS PROF. PAPER 229, 64 P.}{Deposit:: MINOBRAS, 1975 , IDAHO INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: MINOBRAS, P. 16 - 17}{Deposit:: 5) HUBBARD, C.R., 1955 , A SURVEY OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 105 , 56 P.}{Deposit:: 1944 DIREXPL BRADLEY MINING CO., USGS PROF. PAPER 229}{Deposit:: 1950 RECON W. C. STOLL, PROF. PAPER 229}{Deposit:: 1951 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 41}{Deposit:: 1955 COMPILE IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 105 {{ 4) 1964 COMPILE IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1}{Production:: LESURE, F. G., 1964, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, SPEC. REPT. NO. 1, P. 124.}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat)