Commodities
PrimaryFire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin
TertiaryAluminum
Commodity typeB
Geology
Host rockShale · Dakota Sandstone (Dry Creek Canyon Member And Upper Sandstone Unit);Purgatoire Formation (Glencairn Shale Member)
StructureFront Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Canon City Embayment, Denver Basin, Red Creek (Turkey Creek) Anticline; Conner Canyon Displacement
Tectonic settingCentral Platform
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1906
Identification
Deposit ID10013259
MRDS IDD009455
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.44668, -104.84834
References
WAAGE, K.M., 1953, REFRACTORY CLAY DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS BULL. 993SCHWOCHOW, S.D., 1981, INVENTORY OF NONMETALLIC MINING AND PROCESSING OPERATIONS IN COLORADO: CGS MAP SER. 17TRAVER, W.M., JR., 1947, INVESTIGATIONS OF STRATEGIC MINERAL RESOURCES, IN VANDERWILT, J.W., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLO. STATE MINERAL RESOURCES BAORD, PT. 3, P. 482