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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