Mine detail: Shurshot Claims

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Location

Lat / long:

38.36167, -106.81562

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Ore:	Pitchblende

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Junction Creek Sandstone;Metasedimentary Rocks
Host type:	Sandstone
Associated rock:	Early Intermediate-Composition Flows And Breccias;Cochetopa Creek, Nelson Mountain, Fish Canyon, And Sapinero Mesa Tuffs
Associated type:	Rhyodacite,Quartz Latite,Latite
Structure:	San Juan Volcanic Field; Gunnison Uplift, Cochetopa Dome; Los Ochos Fault; Razor Creek Dome
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns); Colorado Platform

References

MRDS	D009087
DEP	10094529
Reference	{Deposit:: MALAN, R.C., AND RANSPOT, H.W., 1959, GEOLOGY OF THE URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE COCHETOPA MINING DISTRICT, SAGUACHE AND GUNNISON COUNTIES, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 54, NO. 1, P. 1-19.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 40, P. 394}{Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., AND STEVEN, T.A., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, SAGUACHE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-733.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.