Mine detail: Unidentified Scheelite Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 39.01472, -105.47725

Resource(M)

Primary: Tungsten
Ore: Powellite, Scheelite
Gangue: Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Idocrase, Quartz
Orebody form: LENTICULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Idaho Springs Formation
Host type:Gneiss,Amphibolite
Associated rock:Silver Plume Granite
Associated type:Pegmatite
Structure:Tarryall Mountains, Front Range, Puma Hills, Badger Flats, Badger Flats Fault (Nnw-Trending), Round Mountain Syncline
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

References

MRDSD010286
DEP10090940
Reference{Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 55, P. 1406-1428.}{Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C., 1969, GEOLOGY AND BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS OF THE LAKE GEORGE (OR BADGER FLATS) BERYLLIUM AREA, PARK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 608-A, 44 P.}{Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1977, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN CRYSTALLINE ROCKS, PARK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 608-B, 77 P.}{Deposit:: HAWLEY, C.C. AND GRIFFITTS, 1968, DISTRIBUTION OF BERYLLIUM, TIN, AND TUNGSTEN IN THE LAKE GEORGE AREA, COLORADO: USGS CIRCULAR 597, 18 P.}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25}
ReporterCollins, Donna B.