Mine detail: Wheel of Fortune Claim

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Location: Park County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.0625, -105.38975
dep_id: 10013798
mrds_id: D010292
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Quartz
ore_ctrl: Fractures; Steep Nw-Trending Faults, Low Angle Nw- And Ne-Trending Faults
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Granite
arock_unit: Red Skin Granite;Pikes Peak Granite
arock_type: Granite
Structure: Tarryall Mountains, Front Range, Puma Hills, Badger Flats, Badger Flats Fault (Nnw-Trending), Round Mountain Syncline, Ne- And Nw-Trending Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
References:
  • 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:: BRYANT, BRUCE, MCGREW, L.W., WOBUS, R.A., 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO; USGS MAP I-1163, 1:250,000
  • Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B. AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40, P. 370.
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