Mine detail: Babcock Peak Magnetite Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

37.42751, -108.07621

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Magnetite
Gangue:	Augite, Epidote, Garnet, Hematite, Limonite, Martite, Pyrite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Pony Express Limestone Member Of Wanakah Formation
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Nonporphyritic Rocks--Monzonite;Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
Associated type:	Monzonite,Diorite
Structure:	San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Fe Oxidation

References

MRDS	D010801
DEP	10094663
Reference	{Deposit:: HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM IC-7918, P. 48.}{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.