Editing Autunite (section)

=== Mount Kit Carson, Washington ===
[[File:Autunite-rl-aut8a.jpg|left|thumb|224x224px|Autunite from Mount Kit Carson, Washington]]
Researchers found autunite inside the Daybreak Mine on [[Mount Kit Carson]], [[Spokane]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] (or sometimes referred to as "near [[Mount Spokane]]"), in "[[Vug|vugs]], [[Fracture (geology)|fractures]], and [[Shear (geology)|shear zones]] in [[Granite|granitic rock]]". These areas showed signs of another phosphate, [[apatite]], which may have helped lead to the formation of autunite, by providing a source of [[phosphate]] and [[Lime (material)|lime]]. The formation may have occurred with the interaction of uranium leached from a separate deposit.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Autunite from Mt. Spokane, Washington|last=G. W. Leo|publisher=The American Mineralogist|year=1960|location=U.S. Geologic Survey, Menlo Park, California|pages=1}}</ref>

90,000&nbsp;lbs of [[Triuranium octoxide|U<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub>]] were produced from nine properties, although most of the ore came from the Daybreak Mine.<ref>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-503/of98-503.pdf USGS]</ref>