Mine detail: White Cloud Mine

Previously called 'Claim: White Cloud'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.395, -105.17614

Resource(B)

Primary: Feldspar, Quartz
Tertiary: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Thorium, REE
Ore: Gadolinite, Quartz
Gangue: Albite, Bastnaesite, Biotite, Cleavelandite, Fergusonite, Fluorite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Microlite, Monazite, Prochlorite, Sericite, Thalenite, Thorite, Topaz, Xenotime, Zircon
Orebody form: ELLIPTICAL

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1968

Geology

Host rock:Pegmatite;Pikes Peak Granite
Host type:Pegmatite
Associated rock:Pegmatite;Pikes Peak Granite
Associated type:Pegmatite,Granite
Structure:Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Feldspar And Biotite Alteration, Fluorite Replacement, Sericitization, Deuterogenic Alteration

References

MRDSD010163
DEP10087817
Reference{Deposit:: SIMMONS, W.B., AND HEINRICH, E.W., 1980, RARE-EARTH PEGMATITES OF THE SOUTH PLATTE DISTRICT, COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SER. 11, 131 P.}{Deposit:: PETERSON, W.L., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE PLATTE CANYON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1181-C, 23 P., 1 PL.}{Deposit:: ADAMS, J.W., AND SHARP, W.N., 1971, THALENITE IN THE WHITE CLOUD PEGMATITE, SOUTH PLATTE DISTRICT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO (ABS.): CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, V. 10, P. 907.}{Deposit:: ADAMS, J.W., AND SHARP, W.N., 1972, THALENITE AND ALLANITE DERIVED FROM YTTROFLUORITE IN THE WHITE CLOUD PEGMATITE, SOUTH PLATTE AREA, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 800-C, P. C63-C69.}{Deposit:: HAYNES, C.V., JR., 1958, RARE-EARTH MINERALIZATION IN THE WHITE CLOUD MINE NEAR SOUTH PLATTE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO (ABS.): GSA BULL., V. 69, NO. 12, PT. 2, P. 1729-1730.}{Deposit:: HAYNES, C.V., JR., 1965, GENESIS OF THE WHITE CLOUD AND RELATED PEGMATITES, SOUTH PLATTE AREA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: GSA BULL., V. 76, NO. 4, P. 441-461.}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATORS REPTS.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D., Spanski, Gregory T.