Mine detail: Giant Crystal Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.41526, -105.37448

Resource(B)

Primary:	Beryllium, Mica
Ore:	Beryl, Muscovite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1960

Geology

Host rock:	Metasedimentary Rocks-Mica Shcist;Pegmatite
Host type:	Mica Schist
Associated rock:	Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
Associated type:	Tonalite,Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010322
DEP	10087854
Reference	{Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.}{Deposit:: BRADDOCK, W.A., AND OTHERS, 1970, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DRAKE QUADRANGLE, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-829.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.