| Location: | Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.64861, -106.0756 |
| dep_id: | 10013779 |
| mrds_id: | D010257 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Fluorine-Fluorite |
| Trace mineral: | Manganese |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Fluorite |
| gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Manganite, Montmorillonite, Opal, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz |
| model: | 174: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins) |
| alteration: | Silicification, Fluoritization |
| ore_ctrl: | Fault Breccia; Fault Zone Striking N 30-50 W, Dipping 65-85 Sw; Fractures |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Beach, Richard A. |
| hrock_unit: | Banded Gneiss |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss,Rhyolite |
| arock_unit: | Gneissic Quartz Monzonite;Ash-Flow Tuff |
| arock_type: | Gneiss,Rhyolite |
| Structure: | Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Folds, Faults; N-Trending Fault Bounding Arkansas Valley |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
| Year first produced: | 1927 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1949 |
| disc_yr: | 1923 |
| References: |
- 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 1941
- Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
- Production:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E. (1969)
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