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Rita Beryl Mine

Past Producer in Larimer county in Colorado, United States with commodity Beryllium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013821
MRDS ID D010337
Record type Site
Current site name Rita Beryl Mine
Alternate or previous names Reta Mine, Clipper Group
Related records 10190997

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.45115, 40.54276 (WGS84)
Elevation 2890
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 11.9 MILES N 14 E FROM ESTES PARK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Larimer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crystal Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Collins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Thompson(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Larimer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 007N 072W 22,25,26,27,35 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • CDM LISTS CLAIM GROUP IN SEVERAL SECTIONS. MEEVES AND OTHERS GIVE LOCATION AS SEC. 27. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR CENTER SEC. 27, ONE MILE WNW OF CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1980)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beryl Ore
Tourmaline Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Tonalite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
    Rock description Pegmatite;Tonalite (Quartz Diorite)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Metamorphic Rocks--Biotite Gneiss, Schist, And Migmatite;Pegmatite
    Rock description Metamorphic Rocks--Biotite Gneiss, Schist, And Migmatite;Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.45115, 40.54276
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Front Range Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Thompson Canyon Fault, Mt Olympus Batholith, Ne-Trending Folds

Ore body information

  • Length 60.96M
    Width 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1961
Year of last production 1961

Mining district

District name Crystal Mountain (Storm Mountain) Pegmatite District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Crystal Mountain Beryl Association
    Home office Fort Collins, Co.
    First year 1961
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wayne Anderson
    Home office Fort Collins, Co.
    First year 1961

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THURSTON, W.R., 1955, PEGMATITES OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1011, 185 P., 13 PLS.

  • Deposit

    MEEVES, H.C., AND OTHERS, 1966, RECONNAISSANCE OF BERYLLIUM-BEARING PEGMATITE DEPOSITS IN SIX WESTERN STATES: USBM IC-8298, P. 31.

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.

  • Production

    COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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