Kezer No. 2 Prospect

Occurrence in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  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 10014390
MRDS ID D011136
Record type Site
Current site name Kezer No. 2 Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.14091, 38.39667 (WGS84)
Elevation 2466
Relative position 15.1 MILES S 50 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

Carpenter Ridge(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 048N 002W 19 NW OF SW OF NW OF SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • AT BASE OF HILL ON EAST SIDE OF WOLF CREEK 0.5 MILE NW OF LILLY BELLE W MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1975

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization In Schist

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite
    Rock unit name Porphyritic Syenite;Granitic Dikes Of Wolf Creek;Melasyenite;Quartz Vein
    Rock description Porphyritic Syenite;Granitic Dikes Of Wolf Creek;Melasyenite;Quartz Vein
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite
    Rock unit name Black Canyon Schist
    Rock description Black Canyon Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.14091, 38.39667

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

  • Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wolf Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 20-FT ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CARPENTER RIDGE QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1070.

  • Deposit

    ARGALL, G.O., JR., 1943, SCHEELITE OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: MINES MAG., V. 33, NO. 6, P. 313-314.

  • Deposit

    OLSON, J.C., AND OTHERS, 1977, AGE AND TECTONIC SETTING OF LOWER PALEOZOIC ALKALIC AND MAFIC ROCKS, CARBONATITES, AND THORIUM VEINS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS JOUR. RESEARCH, V. 5, NO. 6, P. 673-687.

  • Deposit

    BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM IC-7748, P. 13.

  • Deposit

    SHARPS, T.I., 1965, TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULL., V. 8, NO. 5, P. 7.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECT PROBABLY LIES WITHIN COMPOSITE SYENITE INTRUSION ALONG WOLF CREEK. QUARTZ VEIN TRENDS N 34 E, 70 SE, AND INTERSECTS TWO GRANITE DIKES TRENDING GENERALLY NORTH-SOUTH AND EAST-WEST. BELSER (1956) DESCRIBES VEIN AS HAVING ANDESITE FOOTWALL AND CHLORITIZED SCHIST HANGING WALL, STRIKING NE AND DIPPING ABOUT 45 SE. VEIN FILLING IS ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK WITH SOME QUARTZ, SCHEELITE, AND POWELLITE. W MINERALIZATION GREATER NEAR HANGING WALL.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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