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Long Valley Monazite Placer

Past Producer in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodity REE
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079118
MRDS ID W028027
Record type Site
Current site name Long Valley Monazite Placer
Related records 10266505

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.99427, 44.47707 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 3.5 MI SE OF CASCADE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skunk Creek Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deadwood River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork Payette(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 013N 004E 09 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
REE Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Gravel
    Rock description Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.99427, 44.47707
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cascade Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Baumhoff - Marshal, Inc., And Idaho - Canadian Dredging. Co. ( 1953 )

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHMIDT, D., AND MACKIN, J. H., 1970 , QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF LONG AND BEAR VALLEYS, WEST-CENTRAL IDAHO: USGS BULL. 1311 - A, 22 P.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, TRACE ELEMENT MEMORANDUM 473, 22 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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