Mine detail: Crystal Snow Mine

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.52692, -105.40309
dep_id: 10013812
mrds_id: D010319
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Beryllium, REE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Allanite, Beryl
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metasedimentary Rocks-Mica Schist;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Mica 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)
References:
  • Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.
  • Deposit:: MEEVES, H.C., AND OTHERS, 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: USBM IC-8298, P. 30.
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