Mine detail: Ball Scheelite Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.55387, -105.24809

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Ore:	Scheelite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Metasedimentary Rocks--Quartzofeldspathic Schist And Gneiss;Amphibolite
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Boulder Creek Granodiorite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Redstone Fault
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010547
DEP	10094654
Reference	{Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISO N, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM IC-7748, P . 18.}{Deposit:: USBM MINERAL EXAM. FILE (FROM ORIGINAL CRIB RECORD)}{Deposit:: COLTON, R.B., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BOULDER-FORT COLLINS-GREELE Y AREA, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-855-G.}{Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORA DO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, NO. 7, P. 1406-1428.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.