Mine detail: Sunset Lode

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.23279, -105.34168
dep_id: 10012876
mrds_id: D008864
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Thorium
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Thorite
gangue: Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
model: 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins
ore_ctrl: Mineralized Veins
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss
hrock_type: Gneiss,Migmatite
arock_unit: Lamprophyre
arock_type: Lamprophyre
Structure: Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
disc_yr: 1952
References:
  • CHRISTMAN, R.A., BROCK, M.R., PEARSON, R.C. AND SINGEWALD, Q.D., 1959, GEOLOGY AND THORIUM DEPOSITS OF THE WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO, A PROGRESS REPORT: USGS BULLETIN 1072-H, P. 525-52
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