Commodities
PrimaryTungsten
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model271: Stratabound Precambrian sulfide, Colorado and Wyoming
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsSurface
Orebody formLENSES CONTAINING SCHEELITE IN HORNBLENDE DIKE
Ore controlWall Rock Control
Materials
Ore mineralsScheelite
GangueHornblende
Geology
Host rockSchist,Gneiss,Amphibolite,Granite · Migmatitic Gneiss
Associated rockPlutonic Rock
StructureFront Range, Large, Nw-Trending Faults, Fault Zones
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10013100
MRDS IDD009200
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.38668, -105.49086
References
COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO: COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, P.55BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 7-10.TAYLOR, R.B., SCOTT, G.R., WOBUS, R.A. AND EPIS, R.C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROYAL GORGE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-869.HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.BELSER, 1956