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Uraninite from
Midnite Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:51 ± 0.5 Ma
Minimum recorded age:51 ± 0.5 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
151 ± 0.5 MaEocene - 207Pb/204Pb-235U/204Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Midnite Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:93826
Long-form Identifier:1:3:93826:2
GUID (UUID V4):0e090da4-4d50-476b-aea5-fb8ed2568062
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
7.2km (4.5 miles) Sherwood Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) Spokane Molybdenum Mine (Pitney Butte Mine; Egypt Mine), McCoy Lake, Deer Trail & Cedar Canyon Mining Districts, Lincoln County, Washington, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Big Smoke Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Bair Prospect, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Section 13 Prospect, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Lowley Mine, Wellpinit Area, Springdale Mining District, Stevens County, Washington, USA
61.3km (38.1 miles) Elk area, Elk, Spokane County, Washington, USA
66.6km (41.4 miles) Cannon Mine, Calispell Peak, Stevens County, Washington, USA
66.6km (41.4 miles) Daybreak Mine, Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington, USA
67.1km (41.7 miles) Peterson claim, Grand Coulee, Grant County, Washington, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Bart Cannon 1975 CORD ILLERAN Mercer Island, Washington Lilli liliiiLt' 111? KLi-KlLLLIlrVlIlI Copyright...Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Amethyst scepter heads...upon milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A....publications dealing with the various aspects of Washington State's diverse mineral wealth exist, but none..."Minerals of Washington" represents an attempt to begin such a cata­ logue. "Minerals of Washington" shall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
URANIUM • "- MINERALIZATION No. AT THE MIDNITE 2 MINE, S-PO---KANE, WASHII•GTON JONAT. HAN BARRINGTON.......... Uraninite ............................................................ The uraninite-marcasiteassociation...ABSTRACT The Midnite Mine is locatedapproximately 35 air milesnorthwestof Spokane, Washington, neartheconfluence...Sulfidemineralization •s associated with the uraninite. Associated zonesof argillicalterationthat containkaolinite...Botryoidalmassesof marcasiteand shrinkage cracks in the uraninite imply colloidalprecipitationin the formation of
Report (volume)
Mineral Deposits of the Turtle Lake Quadrangle, Washington By GEORGE E. BECRAFT and PAUL L. WEIS GEOLOGICAL...Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1963 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...features_______ ________ _____________ ___ __ ____ ______ Midnite mine_ _ _________ _______ ___ _________ ___ ______...______________________ ·-______________________ Big Smoke mine ______________________ ·_____________________ Deer...mine____________________ _____ _______ ________ __ Fouress (4-S) mine ___ ·-____________________________________ Matherly
Report (issue)
alteration product of uraninite in alkaline carbonate solutions. Association: Uraninite, schröckingerite...In the USA, at the Midnite mine, Wellpinit, Stevens Co., Washington; in the Schwartzwalder mine, near... in the Pumpkin Buttes area, Powder River basin, and at the Silver Cliff mine, Lusk, Niobrara Co., and...the Lucky Mc mine, Wind River basin, Fremont Co.; from the Black Ape mine, Thompsons district, Grand Co...Co., and in the Mi Vida mine, Big Indian district, San Juan Co., Utah; at Ambrosia Lake and Westwater Canyon
Report (volume)
Reconnaissance for Radioactive Minerals in Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana 1952-1955 By PAULL...Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1958 ,- '• UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF...1922Reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in Washington,. Idaho, and western Montana, 1952-1955, by Paul...Weis, Frank C. Armstrong, and Samuel Rosenblum. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958. iv, 7-48 p. plate...Documents, U. S. Gonrnme'b.t Prlnt'lna Office Washington 25, D. C. - Price 35 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS
Report (issue)
and thorium in granitic rocks of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho, with comments on uranium...and Thorium in Granitic Rocks of Northeastern Washington and Northern Idaho, with comments on Uranium...Potential by J. Thomas Nash ABSTRACT Northeastern Washington and northern Idaho is a uranium province in which...of 2.82. Porphyritic quartz monzonite of the Midnite mine, which I interpret to be a two-mica granitic...magnetite and biotite, and possibly as minute uraninite grains, whereas in the hornblende suite uranium
Report (volume)
Geology of the Magnesite Belt Df Stevens County Washington 'y IAN CAMPBELL and JOHNS. LOOFBOUROW, ]R...deposits JNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1962 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Geologic map and sections of the magnesite belt, Stevens County, VVash ______________________________________...Page TABLE 1. Analyses of Edna dolomite from Stevens County, VVash _______ F-12 2. Analyses of Stensga...GEOLOGY GEOLOGY OF THE MAGNESITE BELT OF STEVENS COUNTY, WASHINGTON By IAN CAMPBELL and JoHNS. LooFBoURow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 22:03 15 November 2014 SHABA DISTRICT, ZAIRE This attractive metatorbernite is typical...decade from the mines of the Shaba region, Zaire, an area better known to collectors historically as Katanga...Shinkolobwe,it is more likely from the Musonoi mine in the same district. The specimen is 12.5 cm wide. Photo by...Hampshire; and at the Bedford quarries, Westchester County, New York. “Torbernite” has been reported from...Chalk Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual dark
Report (issue)
45 Bancroft district................................................47 Mont Laurier area............................................52 Charlebois Lake area.............................................52 Rossing..................................61 Beaverlodge district.............................................61... 5. Stratigraphic sequence for the Rabbit Lake area................ 16 6. Cross section of the Rabbit......24 11. Geology of basement rocks, Key Lake area.......................25 12. Paragenesis of the
Thesis/Dissertation
in Mineral Exploration New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Department of Mineral Engineering...crystalline phase in these mines. Very fine-grained uraninite (UO2) overgrowths on coffinite were identified...Microprobe analysis of black ore from the Mt. Taylor Mine identified the mineraloid ilsemannite [Mo3O8•n(H2O)]...minerals identified in this study. The St. Anthony mine hosts abundant uranyl-sulfate and -phosphate minerals...uranyl-sulfate phases occurring in the St. Anthony mine are zippeite [K3(UO2)4(SO4)2O3(OH) • 3H2O] and
Report (issue)
Uranium is a geochemically persistent element. Uraninite, a common uranium mineral, has been precipitated...and brown uranium ore minerals, pitchblende and uraninite, occur either in extensive bedded deposits in...conditions, concentrations large enough to warrant mining are restricted mostly to the western U.S. Principal...Tertiary basins, Wyoming and Colorado Northeast Washington Colorado Front Range, Northern and Southern Rockies...basins Precambrian Shield 14. Precarabrian Shield area - Numbered in approximate order of economic importance
Report (issue)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1963 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 1, Introduction to the Geology...455-A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1963 ._ - CONTENTS Page Page Abstract...predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northern Virginia Blue Ridge (Irish Creek tin district and RobertsonRiver and LovingstonFormations;(4)...sufficientlyconcentrated,in sonhemember of the uraninite-pitchblende(UOeUO2+,•) series. Sonheprimary depositsalso...apparentlycrystallized Hetland, 1954). At the Midnite mine, Washington after the main body of magmafrom late-stage...the bodies.This cesses,but soaking of the contact area around the groupincludessomeof the largestigneousuranium...Characteristics: Primary uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite, sphene,zircon, monazite, allanire, and pyrochlore
Report (issue)
ABSTRACT The occurrence of quartz adjacent to uraninite in many uranium deposits allows quartz to be employed...decay of 238 U occurring within the adjacent uraninite. A theoretical equation which models the decrease...distance from the grain boundary with the adjacent uraninite is described in detail. To test this model, quartz...from the Midnite Mine, Washington were prepared and dated using quartz associated with uraninite; ages of...the U-rich phase will pass through a given unit area on the polished surface within the U-poor phase
Report (issue)
because of problems of environmental concern, lack of mining equipment and skilled labor, a major labor strike...exploration discovery rates, and delay factors in mining discovered ore, indicate that this report is seriously...probability. One such recent exercise for a major uranium area was done by a group of experts; the individual expert...information on an area and understanding of uranium habitat in the geologic setting of that area, and (2) the...Energy Commission support ended and of new work in district mapping, regional and topical studies, and appraisal
Report (volume)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1960 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. Price 75 cents (paper eover) CONTENTS...with entries listed according to author, geographic area, and subject. INTRODUCTION Uranium-bearing veins...most important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Viseu District, Portugal (ore gradesare probablydue to supergeneenrichment). Pegmatite; Rumney area, New...superReplacement; Midnite .deposit near Spokane, geneorebodiesin the environsof hypogenedeposits, Washington, U.S...extensivefield and laboratory work in the Alligator District, Northern Territory, Australia, reviewedfor the...studyof the metamorphic suiteof rock- THE PORPHYRY Mining Jour., v. 96, p. 41-44. COPPER ./IT COPPER HILL...yardslong,is impregnated the importanceof the early mining at CopperHill copper,and the joint fissuresin the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IsotopeSystematics and Age of Uranium Mineralization, Midnite Mine, Washington K. R. LUDWIC, J. T. N•,SH, •,ND C. W....Colorado80225 Abstract Uraniumoresat the Midnite mine, nearSpokane,Washington,occurin phyllitesand calc- silicates...zirconsfrom the porphyriticquartzmonzonitein the mine indicatean ageof about 75 m.y., hencethe presentorebodieswere... THE Midnite mine, located in easternWashington The geologicframeworkof the Midnite mine area about65...similarnaturehasbeenlocated(Robbins, 1978). The Midnite mine deposithasbeen var- plementedby more detailedobservations
Report (issue)
Lake-Blind River area, Canada (average grade 0.12 percent U30s), and at the Witwatersrand basin area in the Republic...principally as a byproduct or coproduct of gold mining; and in medium-grained sandstones in the Colorado...rare-earth elements (REE), Ca , and Fe2+. As uraninite it is precipitated either at high temperatures...brown) uranium ore minerals (pitchblende and uraninite) occur either in extensive bedded deposits of...western Idaho and eastern Washington, (2) Canadian Shield-Bancroft district and nearby areas, (3) eastern
Book
cleaning or trimming, and thoroughly clean the work area afterwards. It is the author's belief that in general...Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...statistical "snapshot" of worldwide uranium mining activities and reserves, representing data that are believed
Report (issue)
of uranium into deposits of the Midnite mine, Stevens County, Washington, by J. Thomas Nash Conceptual-mathematical...a metamorphosed massive sulfide body--Camp Smith area, New York, by Richard I. Grauch and David L. Campbell...using radium in Crystal Springs, Great Salt Lake area, Utah, by J. Karen Felmlee and Robert A. Cadigan...48 Thinning of the Fox Hills Sandstone, Crook County, Wyoming A possible guide to uranium mineralization...interpretation of ore zonation at the Rifle vanadium mine, Colorado, by Dennis J. LaPoint and Gergeley Markos
Report (issue)
Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1965 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price 30 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS...between footwall and hanging wall seams, Carroll mine.______--_-_____________________________________...__ 47. Cross section through Crooks Gap area, Fremont County, Wyo__ __________-______-___--_--__------------_...roll, Rex No. 1 mine- ______ 50. Fault in back of stoped-out ore roll, Rex No. 1 mine- ___---___-_---
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCTOBER' 1965 OF PAUL FRANCIS KERR Surtey, Washington,D. C' X{enlonro Hoornn, U. S. Geological The... Proc. for 1934,p.428-429,1935. U-galena and uraninite in Bedford, New York, cyrtolite: Am. Mineral....28, 1938. A report of the 18th annual meeting, Washington, D. C., December 1937. (with Hucn E. Bunrn)....ineralogy, 1933). Brazilian qttartz a strategicmineral: Mining tt Metal,lurgy23r374-375, mineral 19421, Portuguese...GeologicalSociety of America, and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,February 1946. B a
Report (issue)
M. Moreau, F. Tona The Pandanus Creek uranium mine, Northern Territory, Australia ......... 77 B...Structure-related uranium mineralization in the Westmoreland district, Queensland, Australia .........................Schwartzwalder uranium deposit, Front Range, Colorado, USA ........................................ 159 A...genesis of uranium deposits at the Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado ................................in vein-type deposits of Central Iran (Anarak District) ............. M.R. Espahbod 415 INTRODUCTION
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individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M. (granites...Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid
 
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