Mine detail: Cooper Quarry

Previously called 'Seerie Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.41277, -105.26697

Resource(B)

Primary: Feldspar, Quartz
Tertiary: REE, Thorium, Uranium
Ore: Quartz
Gangue: Fluorite, Topaz
Orebody form: OVAL

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, Pine Gulch Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDSD010176
DEP10087822
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:: 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. 441-462.}{Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PINE QUADRANGLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-598}{Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.