| Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.40361, -107.13563 |
| dep_id: | 10014389 |
| mrds_id: | D011135 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Thorium |
| Trace mineral: | Manganese |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Thorite |
| gangue: | Ankerite, Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Goethite, Hematite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Siderite |
| ore_ctrl: | Ne-Trending Fault Offsetting Syenite Intrusion |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | Black Canyon Schist |
| hrock_type: | Schist,Gneiss |
| arock_unit: | Porphyritic Syenite;Granite Dikes Of Wolf Creek |
| arock_type: | Syenite,Granite |
| Structure: | Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, Gunnison Gold Belt, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Unnamed Fault, Tolvar Peak Stock |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| References: |
- Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CARPENTER RIDE QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1070.
- Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1961, FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF THORIUM-, NIOBIUM-, AND RARE-EARTH-BEARING MINERALS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 424-B, P. B283-B286.
- Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCE OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 174.
- Deposit:: MALAN, R.C., 1955, AEC PRELIM. RECON. REPT. DEB-P-3-1713.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.
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