Mine detail: Snowflake Deposit

Previously called 'Snowflake Lode and Snowflake No. 2Lionelle'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.63861, -106.07699

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Manganese
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Manganite, Montmorillonite, Opal, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz
Orebody form: LENSOID
Discovery year: 1923

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1927
Last production ended: 1949

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite
Associated rock:Ash-Flow Tuff
Associated type:Rhyolite
Structure:Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Folds, Faults; N-Trending Fault Bounding Arkansas Valley
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:Silicification, Fluoritization

References

MRDSD010239
DEP10013769
Reference{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS NE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 626, 52 P.}{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E. AND COX, D.C., 1969, FLUORSPAR MINES AND PROSPECTS, IN, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS NE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 626, P. 38-43}{Deposit:: BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, 1:500,000, TEXT}{Deposit:: COLO BOM AN RPT 1937}{Production:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E. (1969)}
ReporterIntermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Beach, RIchard A., Collins, Donna B.