Mine detail: Sage Claim

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Location:	Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.56611, -105.93059
dep_id:	10013771
mrds_id:	D010242
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tungsten
Minor mineral:	Manganese
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	No production occurred
Development status:	Occurrence
ore:	Psilomelane, Scheelite
gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
ore_ctrl:	Breccia Zone, Fractures
Reporter:	Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit:	Antero Formation (Water Laid Ash With Air-Fall And Ash-Flow Tuff And Lahar)
hrock_type:	Lake Sediments,Ash-Flow Tuff
arock_unit:	Badger Creek Tuff;Antero Formation
arock_type:	Ash-Flow Tuff
Structure:	Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Breccia Zone
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
References:	Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 3-7 Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000. Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25, TEXT Deposit:: SHARPS, T.I., 1965, TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN, V. 8. NO. 5, 16 P. Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100. Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.