Mine detail: Shuttle Run Mine

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Location: Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.37417, -105.2003
dep_id: 10013718
mrds_id: D010164
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Feldspar, Quartz
Minor mineral: REE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Allanite, Gadolinite, Quartz
gangue: Cleavelandite, Fluorite
orebody_fm: OVAL
work_type: Unknown
alteration: Probable Replacement Of Fluorite By Allanite
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Pegmatite;Pikes Peak Granite
hrock_type: Pegmatite
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Pikes Peak Granite
arock_type: Pegmatite,Granite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: SIMMONS, W.B., AND HEINRICH, E.W., 1980, RARE-EARTH PEGMATITES OF THE SOUTH PLATTE DISTRICT, COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SER. 11, 131 P.
  • Deposit:: PETERSON, W.L., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE PLATTE CANYON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1181-C, 23 P., 1 PL.
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