| Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.37361, -107.06951 |
| dep_id: | 10014396 |
| mrds_id: | D011143 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Thorium |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Thorite |
| gangue: | Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Goethite, Hematite, Quartz |
| ore_ctrl: | Ne-And Nw-Trending Veins Cutting Schist |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | Black Canyon Schist |
| hrock_type: | Schist |
| arock_unit: | Thorium Vein;Fish Canyon Tuff;Hinsdale Formation |
| arock_type: | Quartz Latite,Basalt |
| Structure: | Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, Gunnison Gold Belt, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Tolvar Peak Stock |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| References: |
- Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE POWDERHORN QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1178.
- 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.
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