Location: | Douglas County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 39.15972, -105.04085 |
dep_id: | 10013801 |
mrds_id: | D010298 |
Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Feldspar |
Trace mineral: | Thorium, REE |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Microcline |
gangue: | Allanite, Biotite, Fluorite, Thorite |
work_type: | Surface |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite |
hrock_type: | Granite |
arock_unit: | Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite |
arock_type: | Pegmatite,Granite |
Structure: | Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Rampart Range Uplift, Perry Park-Jarre Canyon Fault, Rampart Range Fault, Manitou Park Half Graben |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
yr_lst_prd: | 1953 |
References: |
- Deposit:: MEEVES, H.C., AND OTHERS, 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: USBM IC-8298, P. 24-25.
- Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, AND OTHERS, 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1X2 QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1163.
- Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1957, PEGMATITE PROVINCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES QUART., V. 52, NO. 4, P. 1-22.
- Deposit:: TRIMBLE, D.E., AND MACHETTE, M.N., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS-CASTLE ROCK AREA, FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-857-F.
- Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN OPERATOR REPTS.
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