Mine detail: Gray Jeep Group

Previously called 'Unpatented Claims: Gray Jeep Nos. 1-15Stacie Queen'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.40361, -107.13563

Resource(M)

Primary:	Thorium
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Thorite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Goethite, Hematite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Siderite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Black Canyon Schist
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Syenite;Granite Dikes Of Wolf Creek
Associated 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

MRDS	D011135
DEP	10014389
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.