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Brown Bear No. 2 Prospect

Occurrence in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodity Thorium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072023
MRDS ID W015834
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Bear No. 2 Prospect
Related records 10290774

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.495, 44.9317 (WGS84)
Elevation 2545
Relative position 7.5 MI ESE TENDOY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lemhi Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadore(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubois(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Rock(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 019N 025E 33 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ON MONTANA-IDAHO STATE LINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup-Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.495, 44.9317
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.15M
    Length 121.92M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lemhi Pass Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STAATZ, M. H., 1972, GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION OF THORIUM-BEARING VEINS, LEMHI PASS QUADRANGLE, IDAHO AND MONTANA: USGS BULL 1351, 94 P

  • Deposit

    1972 GEOLMAP STAATZ, M. H., BULL 135

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 VEINS, SOUTH VEIN DESCRIBED ABOVE; NORTH VEIN IS 65 FT LONG, 1 FT THICK, TRENDS N 79 DEG W

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-07-01 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

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