Piceance Creek Basin Saline Deposits (Piceance Creek Basin Nahcolite and Dawsonite Deposits), Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco Co., Colorado, USA
REF:Deposit:: BEARD, T.N., AND OTHERS, 1974, NAHCOLITE AND DAWSONITE RESOURCES IN THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, COLORADO, IN MURRAY, D.K., ED., ENERGY RESOURCES OF THE PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, COLORADO: RMAG 25TH FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 101
Commodities (Major) - Cobalt, Sodium; (Trace) - Aluminum, Sodium - Halite
Development Status: Producer
Host Rock Unit: Pikes Peak Granite
Structure: Piceance Creek Basin, White River Uplift, Piceance Creek Dome, Red Wash Syncline, Hunter Creek Syncline
Host Rock: Oil Shale
Tectonic Structure: Colorado Platform
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Map Reference: 39°57'25"N , 108°21'35"W
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Albite  | | | | Reference: | [Minerals of Colorado (1997) Eckels, E. B.] |
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Dawsonite | | | | Reference: | [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] |
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Halite | | | | Reference: | [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] |
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Nahcolite | | | | Reference: | [U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.] |
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4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.
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