Mine detail: Beaver Creek Occurrence

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Location

Lat / long:

38.56668, -105.02556

Resource(M)

Primary:

Uranium

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Fountain Formation (Perm-Penn), Harding Sandstone (Ord);Migmatitic Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss,Sandstone
Structure:	Front Range, Canon City Embayment, Canon City Embayment, Numerous Nw- And Ne- Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

References

MRDS	D009615
DEP	10087779
Reference	{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J. L., COLLINS, D. B. AND HORNBAKER, A. L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40, P. 144.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G. R., TAYLOR, R. B., EPIS, R. C. AND WOBUS, R. A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1: 250,000.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.