Location: | El Paso County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.66918, -104.88112 |
dep_id: | 10013849 |
mrds_id: | D010375 |
Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Feldspar |
Trace mineral: | Mica, Quartz |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz |
gangue: | Apatite, Biotite |
orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Boulder Creek Granodiorite;Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite |
hrock_type: | Diorite |
arock_unit: | Boulder Creek Granodiorite;Pegmatite |
arock_type: | Quartz Monzonite,Diorite |
Structure: | Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Mt Rosa Intrusive Center, Ute Pass Fault |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
References: |
- Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-44: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 32-34.
- Deposit:: TRIMBLE, D.E., AND MACHETTE, M.N., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS-CASTLE ROCK AREA, FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-857-F.
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