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Newett Quarries

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Feldspar, Uranium, REE
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018143
MRDS ID DC04952
Record type Site
Current site name Newett Quarries

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.99782, 38.85306 (WGS84)
Elevation 2957
Relative position 0.8 MILE S39W OF NEWETT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Castle Rock Gulch(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

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 14S 77W 03 S2 OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON NE POINT OF LIMESTONE RIDGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Uranium Secondary
REE Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Albite Ore
Plagioclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Granodiorite
    Rock description Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.99782, 38.85306
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nnw-Trending Faults, Trout Creek Fault, Ne- And Nne-Trending Syncline

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Rare Earth Minerals Concentrated In Pegmatite Cores

Comments on the geologic information

  • MONAZITE AND EUXENITE ARE FOUND IN QUARTZ-MICROCLINE CORES OF PEGMATITES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Trout Creek Pass Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 22.167HA
    Overall length 701.04M
    Overall width 335.28M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARKER, RAYMOND L., 1963, NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM IN THE UNITED STATES, USGS MINERAL INVESTIGATION RESOURCE MAP MR-36.

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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