Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Gunnison | county |
Colorado | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Powderhorn | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Montrose | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Montrose | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Upper Gunnison | hydrologic unit |
Gunnison | hydrologic accounting unit |
Gunnison | hydrologic subregion |
Upper Colorado | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
---|---|---|
Intrusive rocks | CO | Cambrian |
Modern alluvium | CO | Quaternary |
Felsic and hornblendic gneisses, either separate or interlayered | CO | Early Proterozoic |
Granitic rocks of 1400-m.y. age group | CO | Middle Proterozoic |
ID | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
San Juan Mountains '86 | M-D | San Juan Mountains '86 7483 line km with spacing 0.53 km over parts of CO |
Durango '67 | M-A | Durango '67 4441 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CO |
Colorado Regional West | M-A | Colorado Regional West 5632 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of CO |
Montrose | M/R-D | Montrose 5664 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of CO |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
CR08 | Porphyry Cu | Laramide |
CR09 | Porphyry Cu | Middle Tertiary |
CR31 | Hot-spring Au-Ag | Tertiary |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Great Plains | Lateral-extensional orogen | Central and Southwest |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
5062102 | 1976-06-05 | Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves. |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
1045740 | 1976-06-05 | Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid. |
Sample ID | Rock type | Rock name |
---|---|---|
C120004 | igneous | undetermined |
D335042 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335043 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335044 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335045 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335046 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335047 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335048 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335049 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335050 | igneous | carbonatite |
D335051 | igneous | alkalic |
D335052 | igneous | alkalic |
D335053 | igneous | alkalic |
D335054 | igneous | alkalic |
D335055 | igneous | |
D335056 | igneous |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Du Pont Tunnel | Prospect | NB REE TI_M FE MN TH ZN P |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
---|---|---|
Iron Hill Carbonatite | Occurrence | Colorado, United States |
Sample ID | Sample source | Sample notes |
---|---|---|
C105465 | stream/river | stream deposit; Stream Sediment : Deldorado Creek |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
---|---|---|
Eastern Alkaline Province | porphyry copper | A belt of Tertiary alkaline granitic rocks associated with back-arc or postsubduction extension |
Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains | porphyry copper | Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns |
Feature ID | Feature type | Feature name |
---|---|---|
Prospect Pit | point | |
Prospect Pit | point | |
Adit | point |
Site name | Feature type | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Iron Hill Carbonatite Complex, Iron Hill Carbonatite | Deposit | rare earth elements; niobium; thorium; uranium; vanadium |
Iron Hill, Iron Hill carbonatite dikes deposit | Deposit | niobium; rare-earth elements; thorium; uranium |
Iron Hill, Iron Hill carbonatite stock deposit | Deposit | niobium; rare-earth elements; thorium; uranium |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Critical minerals |
---|---|---|
Iron Hill carbonatite complex | Carbonatite | niobium, REE, titanium, vanadium |