Mine detail: Muleshoe Uranium Deposit

Previously called 'Muleshoe'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.58946, -105.18139

Resource(M)

Primary:

Vanadium, Uranium

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Intrusive Igneous Rocks
Host type:	Monzonite
Associated rock:	Intrusive Igneous Rocks
Associated 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

MRDS	DC01643
DEP	10016611
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Unknown, Schwochow, Stephen D.