Mine detail: Doerr Mine

Previously called 'Bentz Claim'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.87986, -116.56963

Resource(B)

Primary: Mica
Tertiary: Beryllium
Gangue: Molybdenite, Quartz
Orebody form: LENTICULAR
Discovery year: 1914

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1914

Geology

Host rock:Belt Supergroup
Host type:Schist,Gneiss
Associated rock:Pegmatite;;Basalt Sill
Associated type:Pegmatite
Structure:Steeply Dipping W Limb Of Anticline Of Great Width, Foliation Parallel To Bedding Which Strikes Due N, Dips 50 Deg W To Vertical

References

MRDSW015893
DEP10105788
Reference{Deposit:: STOLL, W. C., 1950, MICA AND BERYL PEGMATITES IN IDAHO AND MONTANA: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 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:: HUBBARD, C. R., 1957, MINERAL RESOURCES OF LATAH COUNTY: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPT. 2, P. 20.}{Deposit:: PATTEE, E. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, BERYLLIUM RESOURCES OF IDAHO, WASHINGTON, MONTANA, AND OREGON: US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 7148, P. 25, 46-48.}{Deposit:: 5) REED, G. C., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE AVON MICA DISTRICT LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO: US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 3898, P. 17-18.}{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 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY CO. REPT. 2}{Deposit:: 1958 RECON US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 7148}{Production:: STOLL, W. C., 1950, USGS PROF. PAPER 229, 64 P. { HUBBARD, C. R., 1957, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY CO. REPT. 2, P. 20 { LESURE, F. G., 1964, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. 1, P. 131. { REED, G. C., 1946, US BUR MINES REPT. INV. 3898, P. 6.}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.