Mine detail: Iron Dike

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.39359, -105.6956

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Iron, Titanium, Metal
Gangue:	Apatite, Augite, Biotite, Labradorite, Limonite, Quartz, Sillimanite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Diabase Dike;Metasedimentary Rocks Undivided
Host type:	Diabase
Associated rock:	Diabase Dike;Silver Plume Granite
Associated type:	Diabase
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Silver Plume Batholith, Boulder Creek Batholith, Nw-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Sericitization Of Plagioclase In Wallrock; Chloritization Of Pyrox Ene; Limonite Replacement Of Augite And Chlorite

References

MRDS	D010558
DEP	10013978
Reference	{Deposit:: WAHLSTROM, E.E., 1956, PETROLOGY AND WEATHERING OF THE IRON DIKE, B OULDER AND LARIMER COUNTIES, COLORADO: GSA BULL., V. 67, NO. 2, P. 147 -163.}{Deposit:: BOOS, M.F., AND BOOS, C.M., 1933, IRON DIKE (ABS.): GSA BULL., V. 4 4, P. 73.}{Deposit:: CRAWFORD, R.D., 1908, GEOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE SUGARLOAF DISTRI CT: UNIV. COLORADO STUDIES, V. 6, P. 97-131.}{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1938, LARAMIDE IGNEOUS SEQUENCE AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: GSA BULL., V. 49, P. 35-68.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.