Mine detail: Brandt Claims

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Location

Lat / long:

38.52362, -105.04306

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Secondary:	Vanadium
Ore:	Carnotite, Tyuyamunite
Gangue:	Iron, Montmorillonite
Orebody form:	BEDDED, TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Dakota Sandstone
Host type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Canon City Embayment, Colorado Front Range, Nw-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:	There Is A Cap Of Altered Montmorillonite (?) Over The Dakota Formation

References

MRDS	D009614
DEP	10013365
Reference	{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J. L., COLLINS, D. B. AND HORNBAKER, A. L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40, P. 145.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G. R., TAYLOR, R. B., EPIS, R. C., WOBUS, R. A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1: 250,000.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.