| Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.33389, -107.08062 |
| dep_id: | 10014419 |
| mrds_id: | D011175 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Thorium |
| Trace mineral: | Lead, Copper, Zinc, REE |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Thorite |
| gangue: | Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Jasper, Magnetite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rutile, Specularite, Sphalerite |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| ore_ctrl: | Ne-Trending Vein Cutting Across Foliation Of Schist |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | Dubois Greenstone--Metavolcanic Hornblende Schist And Amphibolite |
| hrock_type: | Schist,Amphibolite |
| 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.
- Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., AND HEDLUND, D.C., 1981, ALKALIC ROCKS AND RESOURCES OF THORIUM AND ASSOCIATED ELEMENTS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 1049-C.
- Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 175.
- Deposit:: MALAN, R.C., 1955, AEC PRELIM. RECO. REPT. DEB-P-3-1752.
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