Mine detail: Cougar Mine

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Location: San Miguel County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.05917, -108.92624
dep_id: 10087924
mrds_id: D010921
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium, Vanadium
Trace mineral: Copper, Silver, Lead, Selenium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Carnotite, Tyuyamunite
gangue: Chalcocite, Digenite
orebody_fm: TABULAR, IRREGULAR
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
hrock_type: Sandstone
Structure: Paradox Basin Fold And Fault Belt, Disappointment Syncline, Dolores Anticline, Dolores Zone Of Faults
tectonic: Colorado Platform
References:
  • 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.
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