Mine detail: Billiken and Black Knight Lodes

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Location

Lat / long:

39.46666, -105.21891

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium, Copper
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Pitchblende, Pyrite, Tenorite, Torbernite, Uranophane
Gangue:	Garnet, Magnetite
Discovery year:	1900

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Migmatite
Host type:	Gneiss,Amphibolite,Pegmatite
Associated rock:	Pikes Peak Granite;Basic Dike
Associated 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)

References

MRDS	D010218
DEP	10013756
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.