| Location: | Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.24861, -107.09145 |
| dep_id: | 10014575 |
| mrds_id: | D011407 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Thorium |
| Minor mineral: | REE |
| Trace mineral: | Niobium (Columbium), Copper, Zinc, Lead |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Monazite, Thorite |
| gangue: | Apatite, Barite, Bastnaesite, Biotite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Parisite, Phlogopite, Pyrite, Pyrochlore, Siderite, Sphalerite |
| ore_ctrl: | East-West-Trending Carbonatite Cutting Across Metamorphic Foliation |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry;Dubois Greenstone--Hornblende Schist And Amphibolite |
| hrock_type: | Mafic Intrusive Rock,Schist,Amphibolite,Felsic Volcanic Rock |
| arock_unit: | Carbonatite;Fine-To Medium-Grained Granite |
| arock_type: | Intrusive Carbonatite,Granite |
| Structure: | Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Cimarron Fault, Powderhorn Stock |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| References: |
- Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RUDOLPH HILL QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON, HINSDALE, AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1177.
- 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.
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