Mine detail: Valley View Claim

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.20279, -105.32085
dep_id: 10012879
mrds_id: D008870
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Thorium, Barium-Barite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Barite, Thorite
gangue: 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
Structure: Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
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. 52
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