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<strong>Rare</strong> <strong>Earth</strong> <strong>Elements</strong> <strong>Review</strong> Appendix B – REE Mines and Mineral Deposits in the U.S.<br />

State /<br />

Province Deposit Type<br />

Idaho<br />

(cont.)<br />

Idaho/<br />

Caribou<br />

Idaho/<br />

Valley<br />

County<br />

Placer, Alluvial<br />

Other Igneous-<br />

Affiliated<br />

(including<br />

Pegmatites and<br />

Veins)<br />

Placer, Alluvial<br />

Map<br />

Reference<br />

No (Figure<br />

3-1) Deposit Name Status Company Comments<br />

624 Chamberlin<br />

District<br />

667 Ramey<br />

Meadows<br />

Orris, et<br />

al. a<br />

Long, et<br />

al. b<br />

Gupta,<br />

et al. c<br />

Occurrence — — � � —<br />

Occurrence — — � � — —<br />

650 Long Valley Past producer — — — � — —<br />

663 Pearsol Creek — — � � � —<br />

283 Diamond Creek Prospect — — � � � —<br />

670 Ruby Meadows — Merlin<br />

Mining NL<br />

(1987)<br />

632 Gold Fork-Little<br />

Valley<br />

7 claims near Burgdorf. Preliminary estimates indicate<br />

about 100 Mm3 with ama 0.16% Y and 0.85 g/t Ta.<br />

Schüler,<br />

et al. d<br />

� � — —<br />

Occurrence — Past gold placer producer. � � � —<br />

279 Big Creek Past producer — — � � � —<br />

619 Bear Valley Small past<br />

producer<br />

— Includes Porter placer. � � � —<br />

Illinois Carbonatite 35 Hicks Dome Potential<br />

resource<br />

— Ore contains 0.42% REO and 0.15% ThO2. � � � —<br />

Missouri Hydrothermal Fe- 274 Pea Ridge Potential<br />

— 95 km SW <strong>of</strong> St. Louis. � � — �<br />

Oxide<br />

resource<br />

11 Bearpaw<br />

Mountains<br />

Occurrence — Lat-long is for the Rocky Boy stock. � — — —<br />

Carbonatite<br />

(Rocky Boy)<br />

74 Ravalli County Occurrence — REE in carbonate veins and dikes in metamorphic � — — —<br />

Montana<br />

rocks.<br />

Metamorphic 345 Sheep Creek Past small<br />

producer<br />

— — � — — —<br />

Other- F<br />

747 Snowbird Occurrence — Hydrothermal fluorite and quartz-bearing carbonate � — — —<br />

Deposits<br />

veins.<br />

Nebraska Carbonatite 26 Elk Creek — Near Usakos. REE 0.35-1.86% in carbonatite 200 m<br />

below Quaternary and Pennsylvanian sediments.<br />

� � — �<br />

B-5

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