Mine detail: Silica Beryl Mine

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

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

40.54859, -105.40726

Resource(B)

Primary:	Mica, Beryllium
Tertiary:	Uranium
Ore:	Beryl, Muscovite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1960
Last production ended:	1962

Geology

Host rock:	Metasedimentary Rocks-Mica Schist;Pegmatite
Host type:	Mica Schist
Associated rock:	Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
Associated type:	Tonalite,Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010338
DEP	10013822
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.