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Banded Siltite at the Blackbird Cobalt-Copper Mine

Detailed Description

USGS scientist Steve Box takes an oriented sample of folded, crenulated, and metamorphosed banded siltite, exposed in the Blacktail pit of the Blackbird cobalt-copper mine, in the Salmon River Mountains of east-central Idaho.

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.