| Location: | Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 39.7561, -105.82782 |
| dep_id: | 10012413 |
| mrds_id: | D008026 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Molybdenum |
| Trace mineral: | Lead, Zinc, Tungsten, Uranium |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Stockwork |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Molybdenite |
| gangue: | Ferrimolybdite, Fluorite, Galena, Huebnerite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite, Sphalerite, Rhodochrosite |
| orebody_fm: | CYLINDRICAL OR PIPELIKE |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 50: Climax Mo |
| alteration: | Silicification, Sericitization, K-Feldspathization |
| conc_proc: | Hydrothermal Solutions Rising Thru Major Fault Zones And Into Hanging Wall Fracture/Breccia Zones |
| ore_ctrl: | Cone Sheet Fracture Zone In Roof Of Multiple-Stage Intrusion |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. (King, Robert U.), Beach, Richard A., Melton, Greg |
| hrock_unit: | Square quartz porphyry, Tungsten Slide unit, Silver Plume Granite |
| hrock_type: | Granitoid,Granite |
| arock_unit: | Red Mountain Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Granitoid |
| Structure: | Front Range Uplift, Silver Plume Batholith, Colorado Mineral Belt, Straight Cr., Vasquez Cr., Loveland Pass-Berthoud Pass Fault Zones, Main Fissure |
| Year first produced: | 1915 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1974 |
| disc_yr: | 1925 |
| References: |
- Commodity:: Nelson-Moore, J.L., Collins, D.B., and Hornbaker, A.L., 1978, Radioactive mineral occurrences of Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1054 p., 12 pl.
- Deposit:: WALLACE, S.R., AND OTHERS, 1978, GEOLOGY OF THE URAD AND HENDERSON MOLYBDENITE DEPOSITS, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO, WITH A SECTION ON A COMPARISON OF THESE DEPOSITS WITH THOSE AT CLIMAX, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 73, P. 325-368.
- Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MISCELLANEOUS METALS--MOLYBDENUM, IN MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 222-226.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.
- Deposit:: SKILLINGS, J.B., 1967, CLIMAX MOLYBDENUM CO. DEDICATES URAD MINE IN COLO. SEPT. 14: SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW.
- Deposit:: OCT, 1967, URAD MINE DEDICATION MARKS OFFICIAL STARTUP OF NEW MOLY PRODUCER: MINING ENGINEERING.
- Deposit:: OCT, 1967, NEW URAD MOLY MINE IS BLOCK-CAVED FOR 3-STAGE UNDER GROUND CRUSHING: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL.
- Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN OPERATOR REPORTS; ANNUAL ITEM 15: AMAX.
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