Unnamed Thorium Prospect

The Unnamed Thorium Prospect is a thorium mine located in Gunnison county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,839 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Unnamed Thorium Prospect

State:  Colorado

County:  Gunnison

Elevation: 8,839 Feet (2,694 Meters)

Commodity: Thorium

Lat, Long: 38.24139, -107.09861

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Unnamed Thorium Prospect MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Unnamed Thorium Prospect


Commodity

Primary: Thorium
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: REE


Location

State: Colorado
County: Gunnison
District: White Earth (Powderhorn) District


Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Not available


Ownership

Not available


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains


Mineral Deposit Model

Not available


Orebody

Not available


Structure

Type: R
Description: Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field

Type: L
Description: Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Cimarron Fault, Powderhorn Stock


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Thorite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Rutile
Gangue: Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Goethite
Gangue: Specularite
Gangue: Jasper
Gangue: Fluorite


Comments

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

Comment (Location): ON HILLSIDE WEST OF UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF SMITH GULCH 2.45 MILES SSW OF POWDERHORN AND 2.6 MILES WSW OF IRON HILL. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

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

Comment (Deposit): THORIUM VEINS IN THIS AREA ARE ONE OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF TH OCCURRENCE KNOWN IN THE 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. PINK TO RED ORTHOCLASE IS COMMON AS LARGE LATHS OR AS CLUSTERED SUBHEDRAL TO ANHEDRAL GRAINS. ADJACENT TO MOST VEINS, WALL ROCKS ARE PARTLY RELACED BY ORTHOCLASE (FENITELIKE REPLACEMENT). VERY FINE-GRAINED THORITE IS INTERGROWN WITH FE OXIDES. SMALL PLUTON OF FINE- TO MEDIUM-GRAINED GRANITE HAS INTRUDED DUBOIS FELSITE ON WEST MARGIN OF IRON HILL COMPLEX. FELSITE UNIT CONTAINS LENTICULAR, CONCORDANT LAYERS OF DUBOIS HORNBLENDE SCHIST AND AMPHIBOLITE. TH VEIN TRENDS N 60 E, 88 NW.

Comment (Workings): ONE SURFACE PROSPECT PIT


References

Reference (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.

Reference (Deposit): OLSON, J.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RUDOLPH HILL QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON, HINSDALE, AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1177.

Reference (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.


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