Lat / long: | 38.20001, -105.32085 |
Primary: | Thorium, REE |
Secondary: | Gold |
Ore: | Gold, Thorite |
Gangue: | Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz |
Orebody form: | IRREGULAR PIPELIKE |
Discovery year: | 1952 |
Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
Production size: | None |
Development status: | Prospect |
Host rock: | Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss |
Host type: | Schist,Gneiss |
Structure: | Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones |
Tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
MRDS | D008865 |
DEP | 10012877 |
Reference | {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.} |
Reporter | Collins, Donna B. |