The Unnamed Rutile Occurrence is a mine located in Jefferson county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,120 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,120 Feet (2,475 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 39.68833, -105.39889
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Unnamed Rutile Occurrence MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed Rutile Occurrence
Commodity
Tertiary: Titanium, Metal
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Colorado
County: Jefferson
District: Clear Creek Pegmatite Province
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1968
Discovery Method: Other
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
Form: LENTICULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Front Range Uplift
Type: L
Description: Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone, Floyd Hill Fault Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Pegmatite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Pegmatite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Pegmatite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 3 11- TO 100-FT-THICK-INTERVAL COMPOSITE CHIP SAMPLES CONTAINED 2.2 TO 4.2% RUTILE AND 23 TO 67% TOPAZ. SEMIQUANTITATIVE SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF RUTILE CONCENTRATES GAVE 0.3 TO 0.7% FE AND 500 TO 1500 PPM NB.
Analytical Data: MODAL ANALYSES (IN VOLUME %) OF 7 SAMPLES OF TOPAZ-QUARTZ GNEISS AND SILLIMANITIC TOPAZ-QUARTZ GNEISS GAVE 1.7 TO 3.1% RUTILE, 1 TO 44.8% SILLIMANITE, 0.4 TO 0.6% (LOW) AND 30.1 TO 71.9% (HIGH) TOPAZ, 5.5 TO 84.4% QUARTZ, 0.2 TO 13.0% APATITE, TRACE TO 0.3% ZIRCON. MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION (IN WEIGHT %) BASED ON MINERAL SEPARATES FROM RUTILE-BEARING TOPAZ-QUARTZ GNEISS: 3 GRAB SAMPLES CONTAINED 0.6 TO 1.4% RUTILE AND 22 TO 51% TOPAZ
Materials
Ore: Gahnite
Ore: Rutile
Gangue: Topaz
Gangue: Sillimanite
Gangue: Zircon
Gangue: Apatite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): SILLIMANITIC TOPAZ-QUARTZ GNEISS IS ONE OF SEVERAL RUTILE-BEARING GNEISSES OCCURRING IN HORNBLENDE GNEISS SEQUENCE TRENDING WNW WITH NEAR-VERTICAL DIPS. PRINCIPAL RUTILE UNIT IS 11- TO 100-FT-THICK LENTICULAR BODY RECOGNIZED OVER STRIKE LENGTH OF 7000 FT. OTHER RUTILE GNEISSES TRACED SEVERAL MILES TO NW. RUTILE GRAINS ARE MOLDED AROUND TOPAZ AND INTERGROWN WITH PRISMATIC SILLIMANITE AND CONTAIN ACCESSORY APATITE AND ZIRCON BUT LACK MAGNETITE, ILMENITE, GARNET, AND SPHENE, WHICH OCCUR IN ADJACENT ROCKS. CHEMICALLY RESISTANT MINERALOGY, HIGH FLUORINE CONTENT, AND DEPLETION OF SEVERAL COMMON ELEMENTS (FE, ALKALI METALS, AND ALKALINE EARTHS) SUGGEST ORIGIN BY FLUORINE METASOMATISM, IN WHICH FLUORINE, AL, AND TI WERE ADDED OR ENRICHED.
Comment (Location): ACROSS SODA CREEK AND SNYDER GULCH. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR SAMPLE SITE APPROX MIDWAY ON DEPOSIT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)
Comment (Development): RUTILE DISCOVERED BY MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF THIN SECTIONS
Comment (Workings): EXPLORATORY TRENCHES
References
Reference (Deposit): SHERIDAN, D.M., AND OTHERS, 1968, RUTILE AND TOPAZ IN PRECAMBRIAN GNEISS, JEFFERSON AND CLEAR CREEK COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS CIRC. 567.
Reference (Deposit): SHERIDAN, D.M., AND MARSH, S.P., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SQUAW PASS QUADRANGLE, CLEAR CREEK, JEFFERSON, AND GILPIN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1337.
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