Oregon No. 3 Mine

The Oregon No. 3 Mine is a quartz mine located in Jefferson county, Colorado at an elevation of 7,500 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

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Site Name

Primary: Oregon No. 3 Mine
Secondary: Quartz Knob

Commodity

Primary: Quartz
Secondary: REE
Tertiary: Tantalum
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Niobium (Columbium)

Location

State: Colorado
County: Jefferson
District: South Platte Pegmatite District

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

Owner Name: Western Architectural Aggregates, Inc.
Home Office: Sedalia, Co.
Years: 1968 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year Last Production: 1968
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

Form: ELLIPTICAL

Structure

Type: R
Description: Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith

Type: L
Description: Kennedy Gulch 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
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Quartz
Gangue: Thorite
Gangue: Fergusonite
Gangue: Pyrolusite
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Fluorite

Comments

Comment (Location): ABOVE AND EAST OF UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF SPRING CREEK 0.35 MILE WSW OF RALEIGH PEAK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Comment (Production): PRODUCTION IN 1964 INCLUDED TONNAGE FROM OREGON NO. 1 AND LITTLE PATSY. 1967 PRODUCTION INCLUDED OREGON NO. 1. 1968 PRODUCTION INCLUDED OREGON NOS, 1 AND 2. RAE PRODUCTION APPARENTLY LIMITED TO SPECIMEN SAMARSKITE.

Comment (Deposit): ELLIPTICAL TO NEAR-CIRCULAR PEGMATITE CONSISTS OF WALL ZONE OF GRAPHIC GRANITE WITH BLADED BIOTITE, INCOMPLETELY DEVELOPED; 5-FT-THICK OUTER INTERMEDIATE ZONE OF LARGE PERTHITE CRYSTALS, MINOR QUARTZ, AND BIOTITE ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE AGGREGATES OF CYRTOLITE-THORITE; 20-FT-THICK MIDDLE INTERMEDIATE ZONE OF LARGE PERTHITE CRYSTALS (MINE ZONE); 2-FT- THICK INNER INTERMEDIATE ZONE OF GREEN FLUORITE ALMOST CONTINUOUS AROUND QUARTZ CORE. CORE-MARGIN ALBITE REPLACEMENT UNIT CONTAINS ABUNDANT LARGE SMARSKITE NODULES; RAE MINERALS REPLACE FLUORITE. LARGE PRIMARY VUGS CONTAIN LARGE SMOKY QUARTZ CRYSTALS.

Comment (Workings): OPEN CUTS INTO QUARTZ-MICROCLINE

References

Reference (Deposit): HAYNES, C. V., JR., 1965, GENESIS OF THE WHITE CLOUD AND RELATED PEGMATITES, SOUTH PLATTE AREA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: GSA BULL., V. 76, NO. 4, P. 441-462.

Reference (Production): COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATORS REPTS.

Reference (Deposit): SIMMONS, W.B., AND HEINRICH, E.W., 1980, RARE-EARTH PEGMATITES OF THE SOUTH PLATTE DISTRICT, COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SER. 11, 131 P.

Reference (Deposit): PETERSON, W.L., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE PLATTE CANYON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1181-C, 23 P., 1 PL.

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