Mine detail: Old Soda Creek School Pegmatite

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Location: Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.7086, -105.3803
dep_id: 10013738
mrds_id: D010197
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Feldspar
Trace mineral: Tantalum, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Cleavelandite, Malachite, Microcline, Microlite, Tantalite
gangue: Biotite, Garnet, Quartz
orebody_fm: POD
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Idaho Springs Formation---Hornblende Gneiss And Amphibolite
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Pegmatite
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Denver Basin, Floyd Hill Fault Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1941
disc_yr: 1939
References:
  • Deposit:: BOOS, M.F., 1954, GENESIS OF PRECAMBRIAN PEGMATITES IN THE DENVER MOUNTAIN PARKS AREA, COLORADO: GSA BULL., V. 65, P. 115-142
  • Deposit:: SHERIDAN, D.M., AND MARSH, S.P., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SQUAW PASS QUADRANGLE, CLEAR CREEK, JEFFERSON, AND GILPIN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1337
  • Deposit:: MEEVES, H.C., AND OTHERS, 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: USBM IC-8298, P. 29.
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