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Dickson - Snooper Mine (Ponderosa Ore Body; Snooper-Dickson Mine), Tallahassee Creek Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USAi
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Dickson - Snooper Mine (Ponderosa Ore Body; Snooper-Dickson Mine)Mine
Tallahassee Creek Mining DistrictMining District
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
38° 32' 2'' North , 105° 32' 21'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Coaldale255 (2011)26.7km
Howard723 (2011)27.4km
Cañon City16,400 (2013)27.8km
Lincoln Park3,546 (2011)30.1km
Brookside246 (2017)33.0km
Nearest Clubs:
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ClubLocationDistance
Canon City Geology ClubCanon City, Colorado28km
Columbine Gem and Mineral SocietySalida, Colorado40km
Mindat Locality ID:
112958
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:112958:1
GUID (UUID V4):
0


REF:Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B. AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40, P. 147.
Deposit:: EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A. AND SCOTT, G.R., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN QUA
Commodities (Major) - Uranium; (Minor) - Vanadium
Development Status: Producer
Host Rock Unit: Tallahassee Creek Conglomerate
Structure: Thirty Nine Mile Volcanic Field, Currant Creek Basin, Echo Park Graben, Paleovalleys
Host Rock: Arkose, Conglomerate, Tuff
Tectonic Structure: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

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Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Uraninite4.DL.05UO2

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OOxygen
O UraniniteUO2
UUranium
U UraniniteUO2

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