Mine detail: Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit

Previously called ''

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

38.61167, -106.04588

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Pyrolusite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Banded Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Lower Rhyolitic Ash-Flow Tuff
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Sawatch Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Fault Zone, Nw-Trending
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

References

MRDS	D010261
DEP	10087834
Reference	{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS SE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 829, 19 P., MAPS.}{Deposit:: BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, 1:500,000, TEXT}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.