Mine detail: Platt Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

41.1183, -106.48674

Resource(M)

Primary:	REE, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)
Ore:	Columbite, Euxenite, Monazite, Allanite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1957

Geology

Host type:

Pegmatite

References

MRDS	D001896
DEP	10107762
Reference	{Deposit:: HOUSTON, R. S., 1961, THE BIG CREEK PEGMATITE AREA, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING, GEOL. SURV. OF WYOMING PRELIM. REPORT (unnumbered), 11 p.}{Deposit:: Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50, p. 221.}{Deposit:: Hausel and Sutherland, 2000, WSGS Bull. 71, p. 223.}
Reporter	Wilson, Anna B., Parker, Raymond L.