Mine detail: Crystal Silica Mine

Previously called 'Claim: Crystal Silica Placer'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.5347, -105.43615
dep_id: 10013856
mrds_id: D010385
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica
Trace mineral: Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Beryl, Muscovite
gangue: Albite, Apatite, Columbite, Garnet, Microcline
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
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)
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Year first produced: 1900
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1900
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. 93-96.
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