Colorado · Chaffee County
Occurrence

Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit

Chaffee County, Colorado, United States
Fluorine-Fluorite
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Commodities
PrimaryFluorine-Fluorite
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlFaults?, Fractures
Geology
Host rockGneiss · Banded Gneiss
Associated rockRhyolite,Rhyodacite · Upper Rhyolitic Ash-Flow Tuff;Rhyodacite Flow And Tuff
StructureNorthern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Sawatch Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Ene-E-Trending Fault; N-Trending Fault
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10090937
MRDS IDD010237
RegionNA
Data scoreD
Coordinates38.50778, -106.11616
References
VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS SE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 829, 19 P., MAPS.BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, 1:500,000, TEXT