Mine detail: Cougar Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.05917, -108.92624

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium, Vanadium
Tertiary: Copper, Silver, Lead, Selenium
Ore: Carnotite, Tyuyamunite
Gangue: Chalcocite, Digenite
Orebody form: TABULAR, IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
Host type:Sandstone
Structure:Paradox Basin Fold And Fault Belt, Disappointment Syncline, Dolores Anticline, Dolores Zone Of Faults
Tectonic:Colorado Platform

References

MRDSD010921
DEP10087924
Reference{Deposit:: CATER, F.W., JR., 1955, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE HORSE RANGE MESA QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-64.}{Deposit:: COLEMAN, R.G., AND DELEVAUX, MARYSE, 1957, OCCURRENCE OF SELENIUM IN SULFIDES FROM SOME SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: ECON. GEOLOGY, V 52, P. 499-527.}{Deposit:: SHAWE, D.R., AND OTHERS, 1968, STRATIGRAPHY OF SLICK ROCK DISTRICT AND VICINITY, SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 576-A.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 401.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.