Commodities
PrimaryTungsten
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnknown
Orebody formLENSOID, TABULAR, PODS
Ore controlWall Rock Control
Materials
Ore mineralsScheelite
GangueClinozoisite, Epidote, Garnet, Vesuvianite, Wollastonite
Geology
Host rockSchist,Gneiss · Biotite
Associated rockQuartz Monzonite,Pegmatite · Pegmatite Possibly Related To Boulder Creek Granitoid;Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite
StructureSouth Park, Front Range, Tarryall Mountains, Puma Hills, Nw-Trending Faults
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1943
Identification
Deposit ID10013086
MRDS IDD009183
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.04056, -105.44002
References
COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO: COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, P. 66BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLOARDO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 19-26.HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.BRYANT, BRUCE, MCGREW, L.W. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DENVER 1 DEGREES X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1163, 1:250,000.BELSER, (1956)