Mine detail: Kerber Creek Limonite Deposit

Previously called 'Kerber Creek Bog Iron Deposit'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.21807, -106.08365

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Iron, Manganese, Titanium, Metal
Ore:	Limonite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR TO TABULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Alluvium And Colluvium
Host type:	Alluvium,Colluvium
Associated rock:	Bonanza Volcanics
Associated type:	Latite,Andesite
Structure:	Sawatch Range, San Juan Volcanic Field, Rio Grande Rift, Kerber And Noland Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Oxidation Of Iron Minerals

References

MRDS	D008050
DEP	10090892
Reference	HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: US BUR MINES INF CIRC 7918, P. 62
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.