Mine detail: Wisdom Ranch Prospect

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.59776, -105.36503
dep_id: 10013823
mrds_id: D010340
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Beryllium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Beryl, Chrysoberyl
gangue: Albite, Garnet, Hematite, Magnetite, Microcline, Sillimanite
alteration: Fe Oxidation; Sericitization Of Sillimanite
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metamorphic Rocks--Biotite Gneiss, Schist, And Migmatite;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Schist,Gneiss
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Diabase
arock_type: Diabase,Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1941
disc_yr: 1941
discr: Leslie Barker
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. 102-104, PL. 15.
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