Mine detail: Skeleton No. 2 Quarry

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 39.21778, -105.06724

Resource(B)

Primary: Quartz, Feldspar
Tertiary: REE
Ore: Microcline, Quartz
Gangue: Fluorite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1972

Geology

Host rock:Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite
Host type:Granite
Associated rock:Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite
Associated 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)

References

MRDSD010301
DEP10013803
Reference{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.}{Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-44: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 31-32.}{Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPT.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.