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Tickon Prospect

Prospect in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodities Mica, Feldspar
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013518
MRDS ID D009866
MAS/MILS ID 80430232
Record type Site
Current site name Tickon Prospect
Related records 10288345

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -105.48278, 38.69667 (WGS84)
Elevation 2591
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 4.2 MILES S 61 E OF GUFFEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cover Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 016S 072W 6 NW OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • JUST BELOW CREST OF STEEP EASTERN WALL OF MAC GULCH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
  • Copied from PP-227, p. 51: The Tickon prospect (#83 on plate in PP-227) is 100 feet west of the road, about 300 feet south of the Rose Dawn mine, and 650 feet west-northwest of the Climax mine, just below the crest of the steep eastern wall of Mac Gulch. (See fig. 7, p. 42, in PP-227)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mica Primary
Feldspar Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • The only possible product is scrap mica.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Microcline Ore
Muscovite Ore
Biotite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 32
USGS model code 13
Deposit model name Pegmatites

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Quartz Diorite Of Boulder Creek Age
    Rock description Quartz Diorite Of Boulder Creek Age
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -105.48278, 38.69667
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Front Range, Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR SHAPE
    Strike N 70 W
    Dip N 45 E
    Length 45.72M
    Width 18.29M

Comments on the ore body information

  • PEGMATITE. MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION.

Comments on the geologic information

  • Copied from PP-227, p. 51: The pegmatite trends N. 70° W., and the dip of the northeast contact is 45° NE. The exposed length of the pegmatite is 150 feet, and the width is as much as 60 feet. As the exposures are poor, the structure of the pegmatite cannot be determined. The pegmatite contains a border zone of fine-grained pegmatite of the same composition as the wall zone, which consists of quartz-microcline-albite-muscovite pegmatite, and a quartz-microcline pegmatite core. No distinct muscovite-rich zone is exposed, but the muscovite is concentrated between the quartz and microcline masses of the core and in the wall zone near the core. Except for the larger of the upper open-cuts, which extends through the core, the workings were excavated along the contact between the core and the wall zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Year of first production 1950

Mining district

District name Micanite District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Copied from PP-227, p. 51: All of the mica exposed in this deposit is highly ruled and ribboned, and no sheet mica was found. In all other physical properties the muscovite is identical with the mica in the Rose Dawn pegmatite. The exposures suggest that this pegmatite has small reserves of mica and that the only possible product would be scrap mica.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Area 0.014HA
    Overall length 24.38M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHALLOW OPEN CUTS: CUT 1 IS 50X10 FT, CUT 2 IS 30X8 FT CUT 3 IS 10X8 FT
  • Copied from PP-227, p. 51: The pegmatite is explored by three shallow open-cuts, two of them grouped together on the hillside at a higher altitude than the third. The lower cut, 50 feet long and as much as 10 feet wide, is irregular in outline and has two main branches. One of the two upper cuts, also irregular in shape, is 30 feet long and 6 to 8 feet wide, and the other, a short distance northeast of the first, is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ZONED WITH BORDER ZONE FINE-GRAINED BUT SAME AS WALL ZONE WHICH IS QUARTZ-MICROCLINE-ALBITE-MUSCOVITE PEGMATITE; CORE IS QUARTZ-MICROCLINE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1982-12-01 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey
Editor 2012-10-03 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record. added additional information from PP-227.
Reporter 1992-05-29 Martin U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0080430232

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