Mine detail: West Tungsten Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

38.73444, -105.52308

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Secondary:	Copper
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Scheelite
Gangue:	Apatite, Chlorite, Sphene
Orebody form:	PODLIKE, LENSOID

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Biotite Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss,Skarn (Tactite)
Structure:	Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field, Guffey Volcanic Center, Currant Creek Fault Zone And Related North And Northwest-Trending Faults Intersecting Ne-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mountains

References

MRDS	D004978
DEP	10094341
Reference	{Deposit:: TWETO OGDEN 1960 SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO; ECON, GEOL. BULL. NO. 55 P. 1423}{Deposit:: BEVER, J.E. 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE GUFFEY AREA, COLORADO, UNIV. OF MICH. PHD THESIS}{Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.}{Deposit:: EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A. AND SCOTT, G.R., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND PARK COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1195, 1:62,500.}
Reporter	Foord, Suzann C, Collins, Donna B.