Mine detail: Unidentified Monazite Occurrence

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Location: Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.79083, -105.98866
dep_id: 10018146
mrds_id: DC04958
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium, REE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Euxenite, Monazite
ore_ctrl: Pegmatite, Fractures
Reporter: Unknown, Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Diorite
arock_unit: Granodiorite
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Southern Mosquito Range, Nw-Trending Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
References:
  • Deposit:: PARKER, RAYMOND L., 1963, NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM IN THE UNITED STATES, USGS MINERAL INVESTIGATIONS RESOURCE MAP MR-36.
  • Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000
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