Mine detail: Devils Head Pegmatite District

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Location: Douglas County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.26056, -105.10113
dep_id: 10107991
mrds_id: D010362
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Feldspar, Quartz
Minor mineral: Gemstone
Trace mineral: Beryllium, REE, Tin, Niobium (Columbium), Thorium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Microcline, Quartz
gangue: Allanite, Biotite, Cassiterite, Cleavelandite, Euxenite, Fluorite, Garnet, Monazite, Parisite, Pyrochlore, Xenotime
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite
hrock_type: Granite
arock_unit: Pikes Peak Granite;Pegmatite
arock_type: Pegmatite,Granite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Rampart Range Uplift, Perry Park-Jarre Canyon Fault, Rampart Range Fault, Manitou Half Graben
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1930
yr_lst_prd: 1970
References:
  • Deposit:: MEEVES, H.C., AND OTHERS, 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: USBM IC-8298, P. 24-25.
  • Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, AND OTHERS, 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1X2 QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP
  • Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1957, PEGMATITE PROVINCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES QUART, V. 52, NO. 4, P. 1-22.
  • Deposit:: TRIMBLE, D.E., AND MACHETTE, M.N., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS-CASTLE ROCK AREA, FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-857-F. &&
  • Deposit:: HANLEY, J.B., AND OTHERS, 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-44: USGS PROF. PAPER 227, P. 31-32.
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