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Muscovite from
Wheeler Basin, Grand County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Basin
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheeler Basin, Grand County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:791239
Long-form Identifier:1:3:791239:9
GUID (UUID V4):ae58cff0-56b8-4cf7-824a-923c92468bba
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
11.1km (6.9 miles) Boulder County Mine, Caribou Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
12.6km (7.8 miles) Enterprise Vein Occurrence, Eldora, Caribou Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Copper Glance, Sunset, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
16.8km (10.4 miles) Cold Spring Mine, Boulder County Tungsten Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
23.4km (14.5 miles) Ingram mine (Valley Forge Occurrence; Critic and Railroad Boy; Sunshine; Three Brothers; Atchison; Belle; Golden Eagle; Melvina; Baron; Richmond), Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
23.4km (14.6 miles) Grand Republic Occurrence, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
23.6km (14.6 miles) Wilson beryl prospect, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
23.9km (14.9 miles) Bueno (Buena Group), Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) Nugget Group, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) Argo Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY URANIUM IN WHEELER BASIN GRAND COUNTY, COLORADO By Edward J. Young Open-File Report...27 Figures Page Figure 1. 2. Geology of the Wheeler Basin area.........................2 Photographs of...of uranium occurrences in Wheeler Basin A. WH-4 A biotite concentration (5xl8cm) in migmatite. Yellow...composed of an intergrowth of clinozoisite and muscovite lies between the pegmatite and hornblendi te............................18 6A. Biotite and muscovite (small zircon in biotite) in sample WH-6. Long
Report (volume)
Indian Peaks Study Area, k Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado By ROBERT C. PEARSON, U.S. GEOLOGICAL...national forest lands in the Indian Peak study area, Colorado, that are being considered for wilderness designation...the Indian Peaks study area, Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness) (Geological...mineral resources Colorado Boulder Co. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesColorado Grand County. I. United States.... ... fil \JX VI INDIAN PEAKS STUDY AREA, COLORADO Mineral Resources Continued Description of Mineralized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NV 89154, USA CDepartment of Geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA (Revised and...uranium deposits of the adjacent Triassic Culpepper Basin were derived from eroded upper levels of the Old...ferromagnesian; xenomorphic textures; accessory muscovite, cordierite, zircon, garnet albite-riebeckite-quartz;...compositions, (87Sr/86Sr)o< 0.710 a Examples Wheeler Basin, Coloradob; Bancroft, OntafioC; Crocker Well...setting The study area is located in northern Madison County, Virginia, U.S.A., and includes Old Rag Mountain
Report (issue)
Basement in Colorado GEOLOGIC A I, Rock Units of the Precambrian Basement in Colorado By OGDEN TWETO...TWETO GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT IN COLORADO U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1321-A...igneous rocks in outcrop and the buried basement in Colorado UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...1912-1983 Rock units of the Precambrian basement in Colorado. (Geological Survey Professional Paper ; 1321-A)...Geology, Stratigraphic Pre-Cambrian. 2. Geology Colorado. QE653.T9 1986 551.7'1'09788 I. Title. For sale
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Proterozoic rocks of Colorado and southern Wyoming . . Crystalline basement.... . . . 3. Geologic map of the Precambrian of Colorado and southernmost Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . 4...ages of approximately 1,670-m.y.-old plutons in Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Diagram of estimated...this terrane 2,500 to 2,760 million years ago. In Colorado, a thick sequence of volcanic and sedimentary...1,400 million years ago and again, in central Colorado, 1,015 million years ago. Shelf-type sedimentary
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(South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M....Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid...Voss C. (general), Wallace A.R (Schwartzwalder, USA), Wutzler B. (Australia). The numerous manuscripts
Journal (issue)
MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES FIELD TRIPS 10 WHE~LER BASIN TRILOBITES Fossil collecting in Utah by Earl Spendlove...cards) $15.0ct 11dl big or 2/$25.00 PREPAID lo.., USA ••• 111 (Y'ai,_...., 111l1h:!'III add &.1,_) PIXIES...will taJce place July 26, 27 and 28 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, California. Appropriately...the foot of Swasey Peak at the north end of Wheeler Basin . Admiring each others finds are Jim Alexander...southwesterly direction over a dusty desert road toward Wheeler Basin, a famous trilobite collecting area just south
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Journal (issue)
ocllne Tula Anlhophylllte Aphte Socialite AnortMe Muscovite Pendotite Shale OIMne e..I1 Marble Ahyollle Graywacke...Jasper .... $25 .25 MINIMUM ORDER S18 postpaid in USA Subscribe to our CATALOG of cabochons. beads. slabs...Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; the San Bernardino County Museum; the University...Recently Renovated Gem and Mineral Hall of the L.A. County Museum and Achievements of the Gem and Mineral...competitions. These collections, assembled by a trio of grand champions , Kent England, James Minette and William
Report (issue)
uraninite. Major deposits occur in the Athabasca Basin in Canada and the Alligator River region of Australia... the Paterson Basin in Western Australia (McKay & Miezitis 2001) and the Thelon Basin in 6 300000...extensional basins Rift/back arc basins Arc/Marginal Basin Alkaline complexes Rift/back arc basins Intracratonic...Intracratonic & marginal basins Drainage basin Intracratonic & extensional basins Continental shelf/marine...Uncle Sam (USA), Gantour, (Morocco), Al-Abiad (Jordan), Randstat (Sweden) Arizona Strip (USA) Yeelirrie
Report (issue)
Bergquist and William W. White .. ........ . Emigrant Basin and Hoover Wildernesses and adjoining roadless areas.... . ... . ... .. ......... . Laurel-McGee and Wheeler Ridge Roadless Areas, Califor· nia, by Michael........... . ........ . Colorado Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Study Area, Colorado, by D. C. Hedlund and R...Roadless Area and Powderhorn Wilderness study area, Colorado, by William . Sharp and M. E. Lane . . . . . ...Chama-Southern an Juan Mountains Wilderness study area, Colorado, by Maurice R. Brock and Alec E. Lindquist .
Report (volume)
cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Publications vols. 4-8 (no. 2). Cleveland, Ohio. Colorado Mining Association Mining Year Book, 1934-35,... 1935-36, 1937, 1939. Denver, Colo. Colorado Museum of Natural History: Popular Series no. 3; Proceedings...Proceedings vols. 1317 (no. 1). Denver, Colo. Colorado School of Mines: Mines Magazine vols. 19-24; Quarterly...Golden, Colo. Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings vols. 12-14 (no. 2). Denver, Colo. Colorado University:
Report (volume)
. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...association of radium, uranium. and vanadIum on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon
Report (issue)
Geophysical and structural studies ------------ 40 Basin and Range region ------------------------ 40 Mineral-resource... and mineral-resource investigations-Continued Basin and Range region-Continued Stratigraphic and structural...Central region ---------------------------------- 81 Colorado ----------------------------------- 82 Iowa -...Region --------------Front Range urban corridor, Colorado ____ Greater Pittsburgh regional studies ______...cooperators ----------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -------------Other cooperators
Report (issue)
--------Geothermal resource studies -------------Basin and Range Province -------------------Stratigraphic...------Arkansas -------------------------------Colorado -----------------------------~--Kansas ·-----...al cooperators _------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -----------Other cooperators...sample and jts leachate, Pando area, Eagle County, Colorado -----------------------------------------...subducting plate of oceanic lithosphere (Great Basin and Rocky Mountain deposits of the general Laramide
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deposits at that time-those in Portugal, Cornwall, Colorado, etc.-were practically untouched. Even thorium...St. Ives in Cornwall, in the Paradox Valley in Colorado and in Portugal. The first discoveries of uranium...Romberger Department of Geology, Colorado School of Mines, Golden Colorado, U.S.A. Many geologists accept...progressive reduction in the permeability of the channels basin ward. This yields a district-wide trapping mechanism...also be derived from the upper reaches of a river basin, where any of the rock types listed in Table 2 may
 
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