Mine detail: Buckhorn Mica Mine

Previously called 'Claim: Emerald Gem'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.53692, -105.3767
dep_id: 10013811
mrds_id: D010316
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica, Beryllium
Trace mineral: Lithium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Beryl, Muscovite, Spodumene
gangue: Albite, Cleavelandite, Garnet, Purpurite, Sericite, Tourmaline
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
alteration: Tourmalinization Of Schistose Wallrock; Albite, Cleavelandite, And Sericite Replacement Of Spodumene
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metasedimentary Rocks-Quartz-Biotite Schist;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Schist
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
arock_type: Tonalite,Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1884
disc_yr: 1884
References:
  • Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.
  • Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-1944: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 88-90, PL. 11.
  • Deposit:: STERRETT, D.B., 1923, MICA DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES: USGS BULL. 740, P. 59-61.
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