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Rock King Prospect

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013782
MRDS ID D010264
Record type Site
Current site name Rock King Prospect
Related records 10165934

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.95948, 38.63222 (WGS84)
Elevation 2658
Relative position 6.5 MILES N 14 E OF SALIDA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cameron 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

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
New Mexico 051N 009E 34 N2 OF NE OF SE OF SE OF SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • PEGMATITE FORMS NORTH WALL OF RAILROAD GULCH JUST WEST OF TURRET ROAD. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Mica Primary
Beryllium Critical Secondary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BERYL CRYSTALS TO 8 FT IN LENGTH; COLUMBITE-TANTALITE OCCURS NEAR BERYL; ECONOMIC BERYL OCCURS ONLY IN NORTH AND SOUTH DIKES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Albite Ore
Beryl Ore
Microcline Ore
Muscovite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Garnet 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range, Thirty Nine Mile Volcanic Field, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description E-W-Trending Faults, Pegmatite Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike EAST
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 24.38M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 24.38M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1937
Discoverer Harvey S. Moyer, Turret, Co

Mining district

District name Turret District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Harvey S. Moyer
    Home office Turret, Co.
    First year 1950

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Area 0.007HA
    Length 22.86M
    Overall length 22.86M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • LARGE BENCH CUT AT FOOT OF CLIFF; MOST DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN PEGMATITE, WHICH IS 500 FT X 10 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HANLEY, J.B., HEINRICH, E.W., PAGE, L.R., 1950, PEGMATITE INVESTIGATIONS IN COLORADO, WYOMING, AND UTAH, 1942-1944: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 227, P. 23-27

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000

  • Deposit

    MEEVES, H.C., HARRER, C.M., SALSBURY, M.H., KONSELMAN, A.S., SHANNON, S.S., JR., 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA, UTAH, AND WYOMING: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8298, P. 24

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.

  • Deposit

    VAN DIVER, B.B., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE CALUMET MINING DISTRICT, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO THESIS, P. 83

  • Production

    BOARDMAN, S.J. (1976)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 UNZONED PARALLEL OUTCROPS; MOST BERYL MINED IN SOUTHERN OUTCROP; FINE-GRAINED, GRANITIC QUARTZ-POTASH FELDSPAR-BIOTITE-MUSCOVITE-PEGMATITES SPEARATED BY GRAY QUARTZITE

Reporter information

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

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