Mine detail: Muleshoe Uranium Deposit

Previously called 'Muleshoe'

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Location: Huerfano County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.58946, -105.18139
dep_id: 10016611
mrds_id: DC01643
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Vanadium, Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
model: 204: Sandstone U
Reporter: Unknown, Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Intrusive Igneous Rocks
hrock_type: Monzonite
arock_unit: Intrusive Igneous Rocks
arock_type: Monzonite
Structure: Raton Basin Trough, Rough Mountain Intrusion, Mount Mestas Intrusion, Sangre De Cristo Mountains Frontal Thrust Fault
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns.)
References:
  • Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 183-184.
  • Deposit:: VINE, J.D., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND CROSS SECTIONS OF THE LA VETA PASS, LA VETA, AND RITTER ARROYO QUADRANGLES, HUERFANO AND COSTILLA COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP 1-833.
  • Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,69
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