The Bear Lodge Mountains area is a gold, niobium (columbium), and ree mine located in Crook county, Wyoming.
About the MRDS Data:
All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Gold, Niobium (Columbium), REE
Lat, Long: 44.49139, -104.44278
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Bear Lodge Mountains area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bear Lodge Mountains area
Secondary: Bear Lodge
Secondary: Bear Lodge Rare-Earths Project
Secondary: Bull Hill area
Secondary: Bear Lodge Property
Secondary: Bull Hill Southwest, Bull Hill Southwest Extension, Carbonatite Plug, Bull Hill Northwest, FMR Stockwork
Secondary: Taylor, Carbon, East Taylor Bowl, and Smith exploration targets
Secondary: Sundance JV
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Niobium (Columbium)
Primary: REE
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Thorium
Tertiary: Uranium
Location
State: Wyoming
County: Crook
District: Sundance
Land Status
Land ownership: State
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Administrative Organization: State of Wyoming
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Type: State Lease
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Rare Earth Element Resources
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: 325 Howe St, Suite. 410 Vancouver, BC V6C 1Z7 Canada
Info Year: 2009
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Black Hills
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Alkaline complexes
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Total inferred resource (43-101 compliant) is 9.8 million tons at 4.1% REO (rare-earth oxides) using cutoff of 1.5% REO.
Comment (Deposit): "Niobioum and rare-earth minerals in iron-manganese-rich veins in Tertiary igneous rocks." (MR-36, p. 7)
Comment (General): Deleted 2 newly entered records for this same deposit after determining they were duplicates. 10400348 and 10400349.
References
Reference (Deposit): PARKER, R. L., 1963, NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM IN THE US, USGS MAP MR-36, scale 1:3,168,000, 8 p. pamphlet.
Reference (Deposit): Staatz, M.H., 1983, Geology and description of thorium and rare-earth deposits in the southern Bear Lodge Mountains, northeastern Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10-49-D, 52 p, 1 plate, scale 1:24,000.
Reference (Deposit): Nobel, A.C., 2009, Technical report on the mineral resources of the Bear Lodge Rare-Earths Project: Prepared for Rare Element Resources Ltd., by Alan C. Nobel, Ore Reserves Engineering, in association with James G. Clark and Donald E. Ranta, Rare Element Resources Ltd., April 10, 2009, 171 p. [43-101 compliant technical report filed with Sedar.com, April 14, 2009]
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