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Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087834
MRDS ID D010261
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.04588, 38.61167 (WGS84)
Elevation 2423
Relative position 6.2 MILES N 30 W OF SALIDA POST OFFICE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salida West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 050N 008E 02 SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • IN HILLS NE OF SAND PARK, EAST OF BROWNS CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Lower Rhyolitic Ash-Flow Tuff
    Rock description Lower Rhyolitic Ash-Flow Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Banded Gneiss
    Rock description Banded Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.04588, 38.61167
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Sawatch Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zone, Nw-Trending

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Poncha Springs Area/Browns Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 15-FT TRENCH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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