USGS URANIUM THORIUM in IDAHO MONTANA WASHINGTON Vintage 1958 Many Locations!

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SCARCE!!  COOL MINERALS!!  MANY LOCATIONS!!
This is USGS Bulletin 1074-B,
Reconnaissance for Radioactive Minerals in Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana 1952-1955
. Published in 1958, there can't be many of these around! This 48-page book discusses numerous occurrences and deposits of uranium and thorium in this three-state area. Almost the entire book is dedicated to discussing the various deposits, without a lot of background geology, so it makes for a pretty rich trove of information on potential mineral collecting locations, with a number of deposit types comprising lots of different minerals. Locales discussed or mentioned in this book include:
Idaho:
Garm Lameroux Mine
Surprise group of claims
Rustler claims
Camas mine
Pegmatite occurrences in Bonner and Latah county
Mosquito Bay area
Last Chance property
Wonder Vein
Buffalo claims
Perron claim
Shoup-North Fork area
Montana:
Royse claims
Crystal Mountain mine
Waterhole claims
Norwich Plutus mine
Occurrences in rhyolite
DG Claims
Melrose area
Washington:
Midnite mine
Lowley lease
Spokane Molybdenum mine
Daybreak mine (famous for incredible autunite)
Pegmatite Occurrences in these areas: Kettle Falls, Sherman Pass, Orient, etc.
And others! Each of these has its own write up!
That is a lot of locations! I think it is likely that some of them hold some promise as mineral collecting sites. Finding collecting sites can be hard, but publications like this make it much easier, when the descriptions are accompanied by locality information. And not to worry – the majority of the locations had only traces of uranium or thorium, so there is no danger from those things.
This would be a good companion during your mountain ramblings and a great tool for targeting collecting locations. Here is a great opportunity to own this cool old report. It really is one of the great ones!
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