Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.12084, -105.31113 |
dep_id: | 10012883 |
mrds_id: | D008877 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium |
Operation type: | Surface |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Prospect |
ore: | Thorite |
gangue: | Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz |
model: | 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins |
ore_ctrl: | Mineralized Veins Along Shear Zones |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss |
hrock_type: | Gneiss |
arock_type: | Plutonic Rock |
Structure: | Wet Mountains, Nw-Trending Shear Zones |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
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. 25.
- Deposit:: SHARP, W.N., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081
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