The Porphyry Mountain prospect is a molybdenum mine located in Boulder county, Colorado.
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Porphyry Mountain prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Porphyry Mountain prospect
Commodity
Primary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Colorado
County: Boulder
District: Jamestown District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Climax Mo
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
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Comments
Comment (Commodity): Noranda found porphyry molybdenum mineralization up to ore grade on the SE side of the stock by drilling in 1981.
Comment (Geology): A Tertiary sodic granite-quartz monzonite porphyry stock intrudes Precambrian rocks and an earlier Tertiary granodiorite at Porphyry Mountain.
Comment (Location): Under SE side of Porphyry Mountain, 1/2 mile north of Jamestown, in sec. 19, T2N, R71W.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Estimated 400 million lb MoS2.
References
Reference (Deposit): Jenkins, R. E., II, 1979, Geology, geochemistry and origin of mineral deposits in the Hill Gulch area, Jamestown, Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, Ph.D. dissertation, 377 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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