Mine detail: Genessee Mountain Scheelite Occurrence

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Location

Lat / long:

39.70805, -105.27808

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Tungsten
Ore:	Scheelite
Gangue:	Garnet, Wernerite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Idaho Springs Formation---Feldspar-Rich Gneiss;Idaho Springs Formation---Hornblende Gneiss And Amphibolite
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Pegmatite;Lamprophyre
Associated type:	Lamprophyre,Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Denver Basin, Junction Ranch Fault System, Blackhawk Fault
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010214
DEP	10013753
Reference	{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., 1961, MINERALS OF COLORADO--A 100-YEAR RECORD: USGS BULL. 1114, P. 293}{Deposit:: SHERIDAN, D.M., AND OTHERS, 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE EVERGREEN QUADRANGLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-786-A}{Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, P. 1406-1428}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.