Iron King Mine, Prairie Divide District (St. Cloud District), Larimer Co., Colorado, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 40° 51' 4'' North , 105° 29' 42'' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 40.85111,-105.49528 |
GeoHash: | G#: 9xkbrkswv |
Locality type: | Mine |
KΓΆppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
REF:Deposit:: WORCESTER, P.G., 1919, MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS OF COLORADO, WITH GENERA L NOTES ON THE MOLYBDENUM INDUSTRY: CGS BULL. 14, P. 69-70.
Deposit:: HORTON, F.W., 1916, MOLYBDENUM, ITS ORES AND THEIR CONCENTRATION, W ITH A DISCUSSION OF MARKETS, PRICES,
Commodities (Major) - Copper, Zinc; (Minor) - Molybdenum, Iron
Development Status: Occurrence
Host Rock Unit: Pegmatite, Quartzofeldspathic Semischist
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Virginia Dale Ring Dike Complex
Host Rock: Granite, Pegmatite
Tectonic Structure: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Commodity List
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4 valid minerals.
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Pliocene - Miocene 2.588 - 23.03 Ma ID: 2804441 | Bouldery gravel on old erosion surfaces in Front Range and Never Summer Mountains |
Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3186950 | Paleoproterozoic crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Lithology: Orthogneiss/paragneiss Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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