Mine detail: Big Mica Beryl Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

40.67081, -105.60254

Resource(B)

Primary:	Mica, Silver, Lead, Gold
Secondary:	Nickel Laterite
Ore:	Galena, Muscovite
Discovery year:	1966

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Quartzofeldspathic Mica Schist And Gneiss And Hornblende Gneiss;Granitic Gneiss
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Pegmatite
Associated type:	Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010396
DEP	10094635
Reference	PEARSON, R.C., AND OTHERS, 1981, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE COMANCHE-BIG SOUTH, NEOTA-FLAT TOP, AND NEVER SUMMER WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS OFR 81-578, P. 27, 32
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.