Mine detail: Stone City Clay Deposit

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.44668, -104.84834

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin
Tertiary:	Aluminum
Ore:	Kaolinite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1906

Geology

Host rock:	Dakota Sandstone (Dry Creek Canyon Member And Upper Sandstone Unit);Purgatoire Formation (Glencairn Shale Member)
Host type:	Shale
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Canon City Embayment, Denver Basin, Red Creek (Turkey Creek) Anticline; Conner Canyon Displacement
Tectonic:	Central Platform

References

MRDS	D009455
DEP	10013259
Reference	{Deposit:: WAAGE, K.M., 1953, REFRACTORY CLAY DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS BULL. 993}{Deposit:: SCHWOCHOW, S.D., 1981, INVENTORY OF NONMETALLIC MINING AND PROCESSING OPERATIONS IN COLORADO: CGS MAP SER. 17}{Deposit:: TRAVER, W.M., JR., 1947, INVESTIGATIONS OF STRATEGIC MINERAL RESOURCES, IN VANDERWILT, J.W., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLO. STATE MINERAL RESOURCES BAORD, PT. 3, P. 482}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.