Mine detail: Stove Mountain Mineral Locality

Previously called 'Cook Stove Mountain Mineral Locality'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.77612, -104.90139

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gemstone, REE, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium
Secondary:	Niobium (Columbium), Titanium, Metal, Tin, Thorium
Tertiary:	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Iron
Ore:	Astrophyllite, Columbite, Cryolite, Fergusonite, Fluorite, Pyrochlore, Riebeckite, Topaz, Xenotime, Zircon
Gangue:	Allanite, Apatite, Cassiterite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Fayalite, Galena, Rutile, Sphalerite, Sphene, Thorite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite
Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Pike Peak Granite;Pegmatite And Syenite Dikes
Associated type:	Syenite,Pegmatite,Granite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Mt Rosa Intrusive Center, Ute Pass Fault, Manitou Park Half Graben
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Alteration Of Fluorine Minerals; Alteration Of Siderite To Hematite And Limonite

References

MRDS	D010379
DEP	10013851
Reference	{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.}{Deposit:: FINLAY, G.I., 1916, DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 203.}{Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., 1949, GEOLOGY AND FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE ST. PETERS DOME DISTRICT, COLORADO: COLORADO SCI. SOC. PROC., V. 15, NO. 6, P. 259-284.}{Deposit:: PEARL, R.M., 1965, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE: DENVER, SAGE BOOKS, P. 171-180. & &}{Deposit:: OVER, EDWIN, JR., 1929, SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES OF EL PASO COUNTY: ROCKS AND MINERALS, V. 4, NO. 4, P. 106-107. & &}{Deposit:: GLASS, J.J., AND ADAMS, J.W., 1953, GENTHELVITE CRYSTAL FROM EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO: AM. MINERALOGIST, V. 38, NOS. 9 AND 10, P. 858-860.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.