Mine detail: Unnamed Thorium Prospects

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Location

Lat / long:

38.23278, -107.02506

Resource(M)

Primary:	Thorium
Secondary:	REE
Tertiary:	Niobium (Columbium), Copper, Zinc, Lead
Ore:	Monazite, Thorite
Gangue:	Apatite, Barite, Bastnaesite, Biotite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Parisite, Phlogopite, Pyrite, Pyrochlore, Siderite, Sphalerite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Carbonatite;Powderhorn Granite
Associated type:	Intrusive Carbonatite,Granite
Structure:	Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Cimarron Fault, Powderhorn Stock
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Fenitization In Granite

References

MRDS	D011402
DEP	10087971
Reference	{Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RUDOLPH HILL QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON, HINSDALE, AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1177.}{Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1961, FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF THORIUM-, NIOBIUM-, AND RARE-EARTH-BEARING MINERALS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 424-B, P. B283-B286.}{Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., AND HEDLUND, D.C., 1981, ALKALIC ROCKS AND RESOURCES OF THORIUM AND ASSOCIATED ELEMENTS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 1049-C.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.