Mine detail: Stumbling Stud Mine

Previously called 'Badito Cone Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.77278, -105.01907

Resource(B)

Primary: Vanadium, Uranium
Tertiary: Zirconium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Thorium
Ore: Coffinite
Gangue: Fluorite

Production

Operation type: Surface
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Dakota Sandstone;Purgatoire Formation
Host type:Sandstone,Rhyolite
Associated rock:Silicic Stocks, Sole Injection, Plugs, And Dikes
Associated type:Phonolite
Structure:Wet Mtns Uplift, Greenhorn Anticline , Unnamed Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDSDC02462
MAS80550102
DEP10101946
Reference{Deposit:: WRIGHT, R.J., AND EVERHART, D.L., 1960, URANIUM--HUERFANO PARK AREA, HUERFANO COUNTY, IN DEL R10, S.M., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO, FIRST SEQUEL: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 362.}{Deposit:: BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, P. 9.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP 1-558.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 182.}{Deposit:: BOYER, R.E., 1961, OCCURRENCE OF RADIOACTIVE FLUORITIC SANDSTONE, WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 56, NO. 4, P. 780-783.}{Deposit:: BASKIN, G.D., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, HUERFANO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 26-83.}{Deposit:: Ref: Crib #DC02462}{Deposit:: OWN/OP: Gray Construction Co. 1966}
ReporterWilson, Anna B., Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Keller, John W., Schwochow, Stephen D., Unknown