Daybreak Mine

USA / Idaho / Hauser /
 abandoned / shut down, uranium mine
Uranium discovered here in the late 1940's and mined in the mid to late 1950's. Mineralogists used a Geiger counter to trace radioactivity in streams and traced the source to a spring located here. During its mining days, some of the best specimens of the mineral autunite and meta-autunite in global mineral collections and museum displays came from here. Mining conducted by Daybreak Uranium, Inc.
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Coordinates:   47°56'38"N   117°11'51"W
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