Mine detail: Thorium Mountain Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.20918, -105.33557

Resource(M)

Primary:	Thorium, REE
Secondary:	Uranium
Ore:	Thorite
Gangue:	Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1952

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Syenite
Associated type:	Syenite
Structure:	Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

References

MRDS	D008872
DEP	10012880
Reference	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
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.