Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.20918, -105.33557 |
dep_id: | 10012880 |
mrds_id: | D008872 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium, REE |
Minor mineral: | Uranium |
Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
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 |
arock_unit: | Syenite |
arock_type: | Syenite |
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 522, 52
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