Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.39111, -107.13507 |
dep_id: | 10014397 |
mrds_id: | D011147 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium |
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, Quartz, Siderite |
ore_ctrl: | Probable Dikes Or Veins Cutting Composite Syenite Intrusion |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Black Canyon Schist |
hrock_type: | Syenite |
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 RIDGE 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.
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