Commodities
PrimaryTungsten
SecondaryManganese
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlBreccia Zone, Fractures
Materials
Ore mineralsPsilomelane, Scheelite
GangueCalcite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockLake Sediments,Ash-Flow Tuff · Antero Formation (Water Laid Ash With Air-Fall And Ash-Flow Tuff And Lahar)
Associated rockAsh-Flow Tuff · Badger Creek Tuff;Antero Formation
StructureNorthern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Breccia Zone
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10013771
MRDS IDD010242
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.56611, -105.93059
References
BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 3-7SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25, TEXTSHARPS, T.I., 1965, TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN, V. 8. NO. 5, 16 P.BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.