Mine detail: Billiken and Black Knight Lodes

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Location: Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.46666, -105.21891
dep_id: 10013756
mrds_id: D010218
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Pitchblende, Pyrite, Tenorite, Torbernite, Uranophane
gangue: Garnet, Magnetite
ore_ctrl: Intersection Of Fault With Magnetite-Garnet Gneiss
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Migmatite
hrock_type: Gneiss,Amphibolite,Pegmatite
arock_unit: Pikes Peak Granite;Basic Dike
arock_type: Diabase,Pegmatite,Granite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone, Billiken Fault, Black Knight Fault
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1900
References:
  • Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 190-191.
  • Deposit:: PETERSON, W.L., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE PLATTE CANYON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1181-C, 23 P., 1 PL.
  • Deposit:: MOORE, F.B., 1964, BLACK KNIGHT AND BILLIKEN LODES, IN SIMS, P.K., AND SHERIDAN, D.M., GEOLOGY OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1159, P. 101.
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