Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.14918, -105.34918 |
dep_id: | 10012436 |
mrds_id: | D008067 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium |
Minor mineral: | Lead, Copper, Silver |
Trace mineral: | Uranium |
Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Prospect |
ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Silver, Thorite |
gangue: | Barite, Hematite, Limonite, Quartz |
work_type: | Surface/Underground |
model: | 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins |
ore_ctrl: | Mineralized Fissures |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Hornblende Gneiss;Migmatite |
hrock_type: | Gneiss,Migmatite,Granite |
Structure: | Wet Mountains, Northwest-Trending Fault Zone |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rockies) |
disc_yr: | 1951 |
References: |
- NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B. AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 40, P. 119
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