Mine detail: Snowflake Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.06306, -105.1389

Resource(B)

Primary:	Feldspar
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Ore:	Microcline
Gangue:	Allanite, Bastnaesite, Biotite, Doverite, Fergusonite, Fluorite, Molybdenite, Monazite, Quartz, Thalenite, Xenotime, Zircon
Orebody form:	CIRCULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1952

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, Oil Creek Fault, Ute Pass Fault Zone, Manitou Park Half Graben
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010230
DEP	10087824
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:: ADAMS, J.W., AND OTHERS, 1962, THALENITE FROM TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 450-D, P. D6-D8.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.