| Location: | Park County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 39.09583, -105.89088 |
| dep_id: | 10013017 |
| mrds_id: | D009076 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Vanadium, Radium, Uranium |
| Minor mineral: | Copper |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite, Tyuyamunite, Uranophane |
| gangue: | Calcite, Chalcedony, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite |
| orebody_fm: | LENTICULAR BODIES |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Oxidation |
| ore_ctrl: | Ore Is Localized Near Fault Intersections In The Relatively More Permeable, Coarser-Grained Sandstones. The Faults In The Area Have Been Numbered, And Most Of The Mineralized Sandstone And All Of The Mined Ore Deposits Are Between Faults 3 And 5, Generally Where Those Faults Are Cut By Longitudinal Faults; Changes In Dip May Have Localized Ore |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_unit: | Maroon Formation |
| hrock_type: | Sandstone |
| Structure: | South Park, Nw-Trending Garo Anticline; Complex High Angle, Normal And Reverse Faults, Striking N10w To N35e And Dipping As Much As 88 Degree Se; There Is As Much As 1000 Feet Of Displacement Horizontally Along Some Faults, And 60 Ft Vertically; The Faults Are Left Lateral, Moving The Western Side Of The Fault Northward; Small, North-Plunging Folds Locally |
| tectonic: | Central, Cordillera, (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
| Year first produced: | 1919 |
| disc_yr: | 1903 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: WILMARTH, V.R., 1959, GEOLOGY OF THE GARO URANIUM-VANADIUM COPPER DEPOSIT, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULLETIN 1087-A, 21 P.
- Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B. AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40,P. 366.
- Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, MCGREW, L.W. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1163, 1:250,000
- Production:: WILMARTH, V.R., 1959; NELSON-MOORE, J.L. AND OTHERS, 1978;
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