Mine detail: Elk Park Mine

Previously called 'Long MineSurprise GroupCentennial ClaimsCentenial Uranium Porspect'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.71501, -107.6562

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Tertiary: Copper, Nickel, Molybdenum, Silver
Ore: Erythrite, Uraninite
Gangue: Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1956

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1956
Last production ended: 1980

Geology

Host rock:Uncompahgre Formation
Host type:Quartzite
Associated rock:Tenmile Granite
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Structure:San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift, Centennial Fault, Garfield Peak Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Fe Oxidation

References

MRDSD010887
DEP10107995
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 9-11, 15, 45-47.}{Deposit:: BARKER, FRED, 1969, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 644-A.}{Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, AND OTHERS, 1905, DESCRIPTION OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS FOLIO 131.}{Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., AND OTHERS, 1969, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SAN JUAN PRIMITIVE AREA, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1261-F, P. 52-53, 88-89.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 398.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS. (1958-1980); STEVEN AND OTHERS, 1969 (1956)}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.