Mine detail: Silica Beryl Mine

Previously called 'Thodab No. 1Claims: Silica BerylLodge Pole'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.54859, -105.40726
dep_id: 10013822
mrds_id: D010338
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica, Beryllium
Trace mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Beryl, Muscovite
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)
Year first produced: 1960
yr_lst_prd: 1962
References:
  • Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.
  • Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.
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