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AIM Id Name Alternate Name District County
BE000803 SMITH-DILLON TALC MINE BEAVERHEAD
MRDS AMLI MILS Latitude Longitude Datum
W015574 300010237 45.12 -112.5519
Township Range Section QSection UTM Northing UTM Easting UTM Zone UTM Datum
08S 08W 23 4997235 377935 12
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Watershed Code: 10020002
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Report: Active in 2009. The Smith - Dillon mine is located in section 23, T8S, R8W on the Axes Canyon road. Tri-State Minerals, a subsidiary of Southern California Minerals Company began production in 1942. The talc deposit was originally worked from 1,500 feet of adits and drifts on the main haulage level 30 feet above the creek. An additional 400 feet of drifts are worked out of a 60 foot winze. However, most of the production for the mine has occurred out of a modern open pit. The talc body is delineated by the workings to be about 400 feet long, 60 to 100 feet wide and more than 200 feet deep. The talc is of steatite grade which is the purest form of the commercial varieties (Berg 1979); Geach 1972).

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