Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.35778, -107.18619 |
dep_id: | 10014452 |
mrds_id: | D011229 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Thorium |
Minor mineral: | Lead, REE, Vanadium |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Occurrence |
ore: | Galena, Thorite |
gangue: | Ankerite, Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Goethite, Hematite, Monazite, Quartz, Siderite, Vanadinite |
ore_ctrl: | Ne-Trending Quartz Vein Approximately Along Foliation Of Greenstone |
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, Cimarron Fault, Unnamed Fault, Tolvar Peak Stock |
tectonic: | Central Cordilleda (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
References: |
- Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., AND HEDLUND, D.C., 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GATEVIEW QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1071.
- 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. PAPER1049-C, P. 24.
|