Mine detail: Meyers Ranch

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Location: Park County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.79306, -105.59586
dep_id: 10013023
mrds_id: D009084
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)
Minor mineral: Tantalum
Trace mineral: Titanium, Metal, Uranium, Thorium, Tin, Bismuth
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Beryl, Bismutite, Columbite, Microcline, Monazite
gangue: Apatite, Garnet, Plagioclase, Quartz, Schorlite
other_matl: Muscovite
orebody_fm: OVOID LENS
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Replacement
ore_ctrl: Fractures; Wall Rock Control, Fault/Fracture Control
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Biotite Gneiss
hrock_type: Gneiss,Granite
Structure: Thirty Nine Mile Volcanic Field, Guffey Volcanic Center, Currant Creek Fault Zone, Other Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mountains
Year first produced: 1908
disc_yr: 1908
discr: Alonzo Macdonald
References:
  • Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W. AND BEVER, J.E., 1957, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN THE GUFFEY AREA, PARK AND FREMONT COUNTIES, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES QUARTERLY, V.52, NO. 4, P. 23-35.
  • Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN. DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.
  • Deposit:: EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A. AND SCOTT, G.R., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GUFFEY QUADRANGLE, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1180, 1:62,500.
  • Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-1944: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 105-107
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