Jeanie No. 2 Claim

Occurrence in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodities Thorium, Lead, Copper, Zinc, REE
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014415
MRDS ID D011169
Record type Site
Current site name Jeanie No. 2 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.10646, 38.32556 (WGS84)
Elevation 2765
Relative position 17.2 MILES S 33 W FROM GUNNISON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gunnison(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Powderhorn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gunnison(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Gunnison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 047N 002W 16 N2 OF NE OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON SE SIDE OF UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF MILKRANCH GULCH. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BASE METALS AND RARE EARTHS LISTED ABOVE ARE GENERAL OCCURRENCES REPORTED IN TH VEINS IN AREA; ALL MAY NOT NECESSARILY OCCUR AT THIS SITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Thorite Ore
Barite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ADAMS (1951) AND OLSON AND WALLACE (1956) TABULATE ANALYSES OF VEIN SAMPLES (EACH SET OF VALUES IS % EQUIV U, % U, % THO2): 0.026, 0.001, 0.15
Result 0.009, 0.001, 0.05
Result 0.029, 0.001, 0.16
Result 0.007, 0.001, 0.03. ADAMS ALSO CITES 0.07% RARE-EARTH OXIDES.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry
    Rock description Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.10646, 38.32556

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field
Type of structure Local
Structure description Gunnison Gold Belt, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Unnamed Fault, Tolvar Peak Stock

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne-Trending Vein In Fault Cutting Metamorphics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Goose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • FIVE SURFACE PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THORIUM VEINS IN THIS AREA ARE ONE OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF TH OCCURRENCE KNOWN IN POWDERHORN-IRON HILL AREA AND ARE PROBABLY RELATED TO EMPLACEMENT OF LATE PRECAMBRIAN SYENITES NORTH AND WEST OF IRON HILL AND OF YOUNGER LATE PRECAMBRIAN OR CAMBRIAN CARBONATITES AT IRON HILL. FOLIATION OF DUBOIS GREENSTONE FELSITE COUNTRY ROCK TRENDS GENERALLY N 50 TO 55 E, 80 TO 85 NW. TH VEIN OCCUPIES SEGMENT OF PRINCIPAL FAULT TRENDING GENERALLY N 50 E, DOWNTHROWN ON NW. OLSON AND WALLACE (1956) GIVE ATTITUDE OF VEIN AS N 55 E, 75 NW TO 70 SE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Colorado resources

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