Riegel Feldspar Prospect

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium
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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087836
MRDS ID D010265
Record type Site
Current site name Riegel Feldspar Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.9667, 38.62972 (WGS84)
Elevation 2621
Relative position 6.2 MILES N 12 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 050N 009E 03 NE OF NW OF NW OF NW Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Mica Primary
Beryllium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beryl Ore
Feldspar Ore
Muscovite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Migmatitic Gneiss
    Rock description Migmatitic Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.9667, 38.62972

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 Pegmatite Dikes, E-W-Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike SW
    Dip VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatite Dikes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Turret District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ed Riegel

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

    ARGALL, G.O., JR., 1949, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY, V. 44, NO. 2, P. 161

  • 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. 82.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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