Mine detail: Unidentified Scheelite Prospect

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Location: Park County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.99389, -105.49114
dep_id: 10013795
mrds_id: D010289
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Powellite, Scheelite
gangue: Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Idocrase, Quartz
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Idaho Springs Formation
hrock_type: Gneiss,Amphibolite
arock_unit: Silver Plume Granite
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Tarryall Mountains, Front Range, Puma Hills, Badger Flats, Badger Flats Fault (Nnw-Trending), Round Mountain Syncline
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
References:
  • Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 55, P. 1406-1428.
  • Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C., 1969, GEOLOGY AND BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS OF THE LAKE GEORGE (OR BADGER FLATS) BERYLLIUM AREA, PARK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 608-A, 44 P.
  • Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1977, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN CRYSTALLINE ROCKS, PARK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 608-B, 77 P.
  • Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C. AND GRIFFITTS, 1968, DISTRIBUTION OF BERYLLIUM, TIN, AND TUNGSTEN IN THE LAKE GEORGE AREA, COLORADO: USGS CIRCULAR 597, 18 P.
  • Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25.
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