Mine detail: Thorium Mountain Mine

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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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