Mine detail: Unnamed Rutile Occurrence

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Location

Lat / long:

39.68832, -105.39948

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Titanium, Metal, Zinc
Ore:	Gahnite, Rutile
Gangue:	Apatite, Sillimanite, Topaz, Zircon
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR
Discovery year:	1968

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Rutile-Bearing Gneisses;Interlayered Hornblende Gneiss, Calc-Silicate Gneiss, And Amphibolite
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Pegmatite
Associated type:	Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone, Floyd Hill Fault Zone
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010181
DEP	10090176
Reference	{Deposit:: SHERIDAN, D.M., AND OTHERS, 1968, RUTILE AND TOPAZ IN PRECAMBRIAN GNEISS, JEFFERSON AND CLEAR CREEK COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS CIRC. 567.}{Deposit:: SHERIDAN, D.M., AND MARSH, S.P., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SQUAW PASS QUADRANGLE, CLEAR CREEK, JEFFERSON, AND GILPIN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1337.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.