| Location: | Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.84944, -106.05171 |
| dep_id: | 10087830 |
| mrds_id: | D010247 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Feldspar |
| Minor mineral: | REE, Bismuth |
| Trace mineral: | Fluorine-Fluorite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Allanite, Bismutite, Euxenite, Fluorite, Microcline |
| gangue: | Apatite, Biotite, Calcite, Garnet, Hematite, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz |
| work_type: | Surface |
| ore_ctrl: | Pegmatite |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_type: | Granite |
| arock_unit: | Granitic Rocks |
| arock_type: | Granite |
| Structure: | Arkansas Valley Graben, Southern Mosquito Range, Nnw-Trending Faults |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
| disc_yr: | 1946 |
| discr: | C. J. Vesey, C. M. Martin, E. Moldenhauer |
| References: |
- Deposit:: HEINRICH, E. W., 1948, FLUORITE-RARE EARTH MINERAL PEGMATITES OF CHAFFEE AND FREMONT COUNTIES, COLORADO: AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, V. 33, NOS. 1-2, P. 69-71
- Deposit:: BRADY, B. T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR. 70, 1:500,000, TEXT
- Deposit:: TWETO, O. L., STEVEN, T. A., HAIL, W. J., JR., MOENCH, R. H., 1976, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MONTROSE 1DEG X 2DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-761, 1:250,000.
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