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Cheyenne District (St. Peters Dome District), El Paso Co., Colorado, USA

Latitude: 38°44'51"N
Longitude: 104°54'40"W
REF:Deposit:: TRIMBLE, D.E., AND MACHETTE, M.N., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS-CASTLE ROCK AREA, FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-857-F.
Deposit:: FINLAY, G.I., 1916, DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 20
REF: Eugene Gross, E. Wm. Heinrich (1966) PETROLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MOUNT ROSA AREA, EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES, COLORADO. II. PEGMATITES
THE AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, VOL. 51, MARCH-APRIL, 1966 pp. 299-323

Commodities (Major) - Zinc, Silver, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold; (Minor) - Gemstone, Thorium, REE; (Trace) - Uranium, Tin, Titanium - Metal, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium)
Development Status: Producer
Host Rock Unit: Mt Rosa Granite, Pikes Peak Granite
Structure: Mt Rosa Intrusive Center, Ute Pass Fault, Manitou Park Half Graben, Emerald Valley Fault, Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith
Host Rock: Granite
Tectonic Structure: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Aegirine
Albite
'Allanite'
Anatase
Anglesite
'Apatite'
Arfvedsonite
Astrophyllite
Baryte
'Bastnäsite'
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Bertrandite
Beryl
Calcjarlite
Cassiterite
Cerianite-(Ce)
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Columbite
Coronadite
Cryolite
Danalite
Elpasolite (TL)
Fayalite
'Fergusonite'
Fluocerite-(Ce)
Fluorite
var: Yttrofluorite
Galena
Gearksutite
Genthelvite (TL)
Gibbsite
Gold
Hematite
Ilmenite
Kaolinite
Kasolite
'K Feldspar'
Laihunite
Lepidolite
Löllingite
Magnetite
Massicot
Microcline
var: Amazonite
Microlite Group
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Murataite-(Y) (TL)
Nacrite
Orthoclase
Pachnolite
Plattnerite
Prosopite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Group
var: Plumbopyrochlore (of Skorobogatova et al)
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Ralstonite
Riebeckite
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
Senaite
Sphalerite
Thomsenolite
Thorite
Titanite
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
Uraninite
Weberite
Wolframite
Wulfenite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon
var: Cyrtolite


107 entries listed. 63 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

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