Mine detail: Starbuck Claim

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.20001, -105.32085
dep_id: 10012877
mrds_id: D008865
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Thorium, REE
Minor mineral: Gold
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Gold, Thorite
gangue: Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR PIPELIKE
work_type: Surface/Underground
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: Schist,Gneiss
Structure: Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
disc_yr: 1952
References:
  • Deposit:: CHRISTMAN, R.A., HEYMAN, A.M., DELLWIG, L.F, AND GOTT, G.B., 1953, THORIUM INVESTIGATIONS 1950-52, WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: USGS CIRCULAR 290, P. 23, 27-28.
  • Deposit:: 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. 525-526.
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