Mineral resources of the Holy Cross Wilderness Area, Eagle, Pitkin, and Lake Counties, Colorado

Book · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:7004163

Wallace, A R; Lee, G K; Campbell, D L; Lundby, W; Brown, S D

The Holy Cross Wilderness Area is in the northern Sawatch Range of central Colorado. This area is underlain principally by Proterozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks, which are unconformably overlain by Paleozoic sedimentary rocks along the flanks of the range. Numerous Late Cretaceous and Tertiary plutons were emplaced into the older rocks, and all rocks are cut by numerous faults. Identified resources in this wilderness area include high-purity limestone and gold-silver ore. Parts of this wilderness area have a high or a moderate resource potential for deposits of base and precious metals and molybdenum, for sand and gravel, and for high-purity limestone.

• OSTI ID: 7004163
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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