Mine detail: Chaney-Sims Beryl Prospects

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.69359, -105.62949
dep_id: 10013865
mrds_id: D010397
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Beryl, Muscovite
gangue: Plagioclase, Quartz
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Sherman Granite
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
disc_yr: 1935
discr: Alfred Daykin And Oscar J. Baer (Claimants)
References:
  • HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-1944: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 104
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