| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.17612, -105.31001 |
| dep_id: | 10012882 |
| mrds_id: | D008875 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Thorium, REE |
| Operation type: | Surface |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| ore: | Thorite |
| gangue: | Barite, Galena, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| model: | 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins |
| alteration: | Altered Syenite And Basic Dikes Appear To Be Related To Mineralization |
| ore_ctrl: | Mineralized Veins; Narrow Syenite Dikes Parallel Mineralization |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_unit: | Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss,Syenite |
| arock_unit: | Biotite Granite |
| arock_type: | Granite |
| Structure: | Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones; Shearing Of Dikes |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
| disc_yr: | 1952 |
| References: |
- 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.20-22
- Deposit:: BROCK, M.R. AND SINGEWALD, 1968, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MOUNT TYNDALL QUADRANGLE, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-596
- Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40P. 119
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