Mine detail: Dorothy Group Prospect

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Location: Park County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.05028, -105.42586
dep_id: 10013108
mrds_id: D009211
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Scheelite
gangue: Chlorite, Clinozoisite, Epidote, Garnet, Quartz, Vesuvianite, Wollastonite
orebody_fm: LENSOID, TABULAR, PODS
conc_proc: Scheelite Concentrated In Skarns Near Bodies Of Gray Pegmatite And Related Quartz Pods
ore_ctrl: Wall Rock Control
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Biotite Gneiss
hrock_type: Schist,Gneiss
arock_unit: Pegmatites Possibly Related To Boulder Creek Granitoid;Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range, Tarryall Mountains, Puma Hills, Lake George Ring Dike Complex, Nw-Trending Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
References:
  • Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 19-26
  • Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.
  • 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.
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