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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