Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.20723, -105.32974 |
dep_id: | 10012907 |
mrds_id: | D008917 |
Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium, Barium-Barite, REE |
Minor mineral: | Lead, Gold, Silver |
Trace mineral: | Strontium |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Prospect |
ore: | Barite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Thorite |
gangue: | Fluorite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz |
orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR, PIPELIKE |
model: | 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins |
ore_ctrl: | Mineralized Veins, Primarily At Vein Intersections |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Hornblende-Plagioclase Gneiss And Alaskitic Granite Gneiss |
hrock_type: | Gneiss |
arock_unit: | Andesite |
arock_type: | Andesite |
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
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