Mine detail: Eureka Group

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.57609, -105.43031

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Ore:	Torbernite, Uranophane

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1956

Geology

Host rock:	Metasedimentary Rocks--Quartz-Mica Schist;Pegmatite
Host type:	Mica Schist
Associated rock:	Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
Associated type:	Tonalite,Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	U Mineral Alteration

References

MRDS	D010386
DEP	10101852
Reference	{Deposit:: THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 209.}{Production:: NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.