Mine detail: Lucky Boy Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

39.07222, -105.37558

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Secondary:	Tin
Ore:	Cassiterite, Scheelite, Wolframite
Gangue:	Fluorite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1885

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Idaho Springs Formation
Host type:	Gneiss,Granite
Associated rock:	Silver Plume Granite, Tappan Mountain Stock
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Tarryall Mountains, Front Range, Badger Flats, Badger Flats Fault, Round Mountain Syncline, Minor Faults, Intrusives
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:	Greisenization

References

MRDS	D010343
DEP	10094632
Reference	{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 GRIFFITS, W.R., 1968, DISTRIBUTION OF BERYLLIUM, TIN, AND TUNGSTEN IN THE LAKE GEORGE AREA, COLORADO: USGS CIRCULAR 597, 18 P.}{Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 55, P. 1406-1428. & &}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.