Deposit

Beaver Creek

Beaver Creek is a site with recorded past production in Wyoming, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Wyoming, United States (43.993, -106.878 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements

Deposit model: allanite-bearing metamorphic rocks · unclassified

Geology

…allanite is present in lenses, bands, and pods of metamorphic calc-silicate rocks. "Allanite occurs in irregular masses that interfinger with epidote." (Sutherland and Cola (2016))

Recorded production

Beaver Creek, Beaver Creek Mine: produced 544.0 metric tons of rare-earth oxide (REO) at 1.5 percent, containing about 8.2 metric tons REO, 1955–1955 (Sutherland and Cola (2016), Pages 51-53)

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass