Mine detail: Basin Quartz Quarry

Previously called 'Basin Blowout'

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Location

Lat / long:

46.26934, -112.23116

Resource(N)

Primary:	Quartz
Ore:	Quartz
Orebody form:	POD

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:	Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Boulder Batholith
Tectonic:	Cordilleran Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W014646
DEP	10107303
Reference	{Deposit:: MBMG BULL 54, P. 16-17.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 842, P. 294-95.}{Deposit:: MBMG BULL 16, P. 86.}{Deposit:: USGS IC 8112, P. 23-4.}{Deposit:: MBMG SP 74, P. 93-7.}{Deposit:: MBMG BULL 115, P. 25.}{Deposit:: 1958 GEOCHEM USBM - PUBLISHE}{Production:: PETERSON, 1976, P. 94}
Reporter	Berg, Richard B. (Krohn, D. H.), Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.)