Mine detail: Unnamed Pegmatite Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.04945, -105.73614

Resource(B)

Primary:	Stone, Feldspar, Quartz
Secondary:	Thorium
Ore:	Euxenite, Monazite, Xenotime

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Pegmatite
Host type:	Pegmatite
Associated rock:	Granodiorite Of Boulder Creek Age
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Sawatch Arch, Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift, Sangre De Cristo Fault, Unnamed Faults, Gibson Peak Syncline
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010584
DEP	10013994
Reference	{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., AND TAYLOR, R.B., 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ELECTRIC PEAK QUADRANGLE, CUSTER AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-628.}{Deposit:: BROWN BROWN, L.J., AND MALAN, R.C., 1954, RECONNAISSANCE FOR URANIU M IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF COLORADO: AEC}{Deposit:: PARKER, R.L., 1963, NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-36, P. 4.}{Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., AND ADAMS, J.W., 1962, THORIUM AND RARE EARTH IN THE U NITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-28, P. 4-5.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D., Keller, John W.