Jeanie No. 6 Claim

Occurrence in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodities Thorium, Lead, Copper, Zinc, REE

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Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Host and associated rocks
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Ore body information
Controls for ore emplacement
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Land status
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10094688
MRDS ID	D011241
Record type	Site
Current site name	Jeanie No. 6 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-107.09257, 38.33167 (WGS84)
Elevation	2868
Relative position	17.0 MILES S 32 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

Powderhorn(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	047N	002W	15	SE OF NW OF NW OF NW OF SW OF NW	Colorado

Comments on the location information

ON PROMINENT HILLTOP 0.7 MILE EAST OF COLORADO 149 AND ON DIVIDE BETWEEN WOLF CREEK AND MILKRANCH GULCH. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Thorium	Primary
Lead	Tertiary
Copper	Tertiary
Zinc Critical	Tertiary
REE Critical	Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

BASE METALS AND RARE EARTHS LISTED ABOVE ARE GENERAL OCCURRENCES REPORTED FOR TH VEINS IN AREA; ALL MAY NOT NECESSARILY OCCUR AT THIS SITE.

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Thorite	Ore
Apatite	Gangue
Barite	Gangue
Calcite	Gangue
Chalcopyrite	Gangue
Fluorite	Gangue
Galena	Gangue
Goethite	Gangue
Hematite	Gangue
Jasper	Gangue
Magnetite	Gangue
Pyrite	Gangue
Quartz	Gangue
Rutile	Gangue
Specularite	Gangue
Sphalerite	Gangue

Analytical data

Result	OLSON AND WALLACE (1956) REPORT SAMPLE ANALYSIS OF 0.007% EQUIV U AND 0.03% THO2. ADAMS AND MOORE'S (1950) ANALYSES OF THREE VEIN SAMPLES: SAMPLE 45737, 0.007% EQUIV U, 0.001% U
Result	SAMPLE 45739, 0.014% EQUIV U, 0.001% U
Result	SAMPLE 45741, 0.018% EQUIV U, 0.001% U, 0.06% RARE-EARTH OIXDE.

Host and associated rocks

Host or associated

Associated

Rock type

Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Rock unit name

Granite Of Tolvar Peak;Thorium Vein

Rock description

Granite Of Tolvar Peak;Thorium Vein

Stratigraphic age (youngest)	Neoproterozoic
Stratigraphic age (youngest)	Neoproterozoic

Host or associated Host

Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Host or associated	Host
Rock type	Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-107.09257, 38.33167	ListMap

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, Tolvar Peak Stock

Ore body information

General form TABULAR

Thickness 0.91M

General form	TABULAR
Thickness	0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

Ne-Trending Veins Subparallel To And Cutting Across Foliation Of Granite

Comments on the geologic information

OTHER MINERALS LISTED ABOVE ARE GENERAL OCCURRENCES REPORTED FOR TH VEINS IN AREA; ALL MAY NOT NECESSARILY OCCUR AT THIS SITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Goose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category	BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

Type Owner

Owner Neil Foreman And J.A. Mcgregor

Home office Powderhorn

First year 1950

Type	Owner
Owner	Neil Foreman And J.A. Mcgregor
Home office	Powderhorn
First year	1950

Comments on the workings information

SEVEN SURFACE PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	D011241

Bibliographic references

Deposit

HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE POWDERHORN QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1178.
Deposit

HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1961, FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF THORIUM-, NIOBIUM-, AND RARE-EARTH-BEARING MINERALS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 424-B, P. B283-B286.
Deposit

OLSON, J.C., AND HEDLUND, D.C., 1981, ALKALIC ROCKS AND RESOURCES OF THORIUM AND ASSOCIATED ELEMENTS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 1049-C.
Deposit

OLSON, J.C., AND WALLACE, S.R., 1956, THORIUM AND RARE-EARTH MINERALS IN POWDERHORN DISTRICT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1027-0.
Deposit

NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 174.
Deposit

ADAMS, J.W., AND MOORE, F.B., 1950, AEC PRELIM. RECON. REPT. USGS RR-94.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	THORIUM VEINS IN THIS AREA ARE ONE OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF TH OCCURRENCE KNOWN IN POWDERHORN-IRON HILL AREA AND ARE PROBABLY RELATED TO EMPLACEMENT OF LATE PRECAMBRIAN SYENITES NORTH AND WEST OF IRON HILL AND OF YOUNGER LATE PRECAMBRIAN OR CAMBRIAN CARBONATITES AT IRON HILL. GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS FOLIATION IN TOLVAR PEAK GRANITE COUNTRY ROCK TRENDING N 70 W AT NE VEIN AND CURVING TO N 63 E NEAR SW VEIN. OLSON AND WALLACE (1956) CITE WALLROCK AS QUARTZITE AND SCHIST. ADAMS AND MOORE (1950) DESCRIBE VEIN LYING IN QUARTZITE WITH BASIC DIKE ALONG ONE SIDE. GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS TRACHYTE PORPHYRY DIKE TRENDING N 30 E AND LYING JUST WEST OF THE SW VEIN; SW VEIN TRENDS N 68 E, NE VEIN TRENDS N 30 E. ADAMS AND MOORE NOTED VEIN TO CONTAIN QUARTZ, LIMONITE, AND UNIDENTIFIED MINERALS. OLSON AND WALLACE CITE QUARTZ, HEMATITE, AND MINOR ACTINOLITE.

Subject category

Comment text

Deposit

THORIUM VEINS IN THIS AREA ARE ONE OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF TH OCCURRENCE KNOWN IN POWDERHORN-IRON HILL AREA AND ARE PROBABLY RELATED TO EMPLACEMENT OF LATE PRECAMBRIAN SYENITES NORTH AND WEST OF IRON HILL AND OF YOUNGER LATE PRECAMBRIAN OR CAMBRIAN CARBONATITES AT IRON HILL. GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS FOLIATION IN TOLVAR PEAK GRANITE COUNTRY ROCK TRENDING N 70 W AT NE VEIN AND CURVING TO N 63 E NEAR SW VEIN. OLSON AND WALLACE (1956) CITE WALLROCK AS QUARTZITE AND SCHIST. ADAMS AND MOORE (1950) DESCRIBE VEIN LYING IN QUARTZITE WITH BASIC DIKE ALONG ONE SIDE. GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS TRACHYTE PORPHYRY DIKE TRENDING N 30 E AND LYING JUST WEST OF THE SW VEIN; SW VEIN TRENDS N 68 E, NE VEIN TRENDS N 30 E. ADAMS AND MOORE NOTED VEIN TO CONTAIN QUARTZ, LIMONITE, AND UNIDENTIFIED MINERALS. OLSON AND WALLACE CITE QUARTZ, HEMATITE, AND MINOR ACTINOLITE.

Reporter information

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

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