Mine detail: Tantalum Prospect

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.54581, -105.38587
dep_id: 10087861
mrds_id: D010339
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Tantalum, Beryllium, Mica
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Beryl, Muscovite, Tantalite
gangue: Microcline
orebody_fm: TABULAR
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metasedimentary Rocks-Quartz-Biotite Schist;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Schist
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
arock_type: Tonalite,Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.
  • Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-1944: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 98-99.
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