1977-10-03_PERMIT FILE - M1977493 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: M1977493
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 10/3/1977
• Doc Name: Permit application and exhibits
• From: Climas Molybdenum Company
• To: MLRD
• Email Name: ACS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table 4 . 1 Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Climax area
Major divisions
Age IFormation Member I of Koschx,anr, 7
(Tweto, 1949) (Tweto, 1949) and Wells (1946) Thickness (feet) Lithologic characteristics
Permian and Maroon. Upper unit 2,CC0 Mostly brick-red thin-bedded sandstone, siltstone, and
Pennsylvanian I Formation mudstor.e; locally conglomeratic; a few thin limestone
unfoss' 'f -beds;I � ili_e_ous.
5,000-6,000 Predominz:ntly arkosic micaceous grit, sandstone, mud-
stone, and conglomerate separated by thin beds of
limestone and dolomite. T e 7 named carbonates are
listed below in sequence with the youngest at the
top. Mostly red and maroon above Robinson Limestone
Member; gray and red below Robinson.
' Jacque 15-2 -------------------- ------------------------ -- •
Mountain 5 Limestone, gray- to bluish-gray; oolitic ir. places;
characterized by large cephalopods, oolitic texture.
Limestone Marks top of Minturn Formation.
F `White Quail 175 2, locally 3, beds, each 5-30 ft thick, of gray to
Limestone I black limes tone separated by 25-150 ft cf sandstone,
I shale, and grit. Limestone is oolitic and cc.-.ta-ns
abundant gastropods, casts of cephalopods lecypods,
brachiopods. About 5,000 ft above base of for-ation.
Pennsylvanian Minturn Elk Ridge Middle and 250 2 thin limestone beds separated by 200-225 ft of red
Formation Limestone lower units sandstone and conglomerate. Upper limestone is 5-7
ft thick and is dark bluish gray. Lower limestone
is 10-15 ft thick and is Dale gray to bluish gray.
Member is 4,800 ft above base of formation.
NRobinson, 200-250 Limestone Generally 3 beds cf limestone separated by red and gray
I i sandstone. Limestone beds are dark to black
i gray
I 15-35 ft thick, and c 0 ntain fusulinids. About 4,200
I ft above base of formation.
Resolution
30-125
Dolomite — 1 1-3 beds of gray dolomite separated by gray grit and
shale. Roughly 3,700 ft abode base of formation.
HDolomiter r 18-28 Massive and thin-bedded gray dolomite. About 2,C00 ft
Dolomite 1 above base of formation.
Wearyman i I 15-75 j Massive gray to buff reef-forming dolomite. About
Dolomite i 2,800 ft above base of formation.
Belden Shale Unknown
-- -- — ----- -------—Unknown Gray and black shale interbedded with thin-bedded
I dark-gray limestone. Present only in subsurface.
Dolomite 67-95 1 Massive
Leadville gray to black c..erty dolomite.
Mississippian Dolomite I Gilman 16-22 I Dolomitic sandstone, cherty; dolomite breccia.
Sandstone
Diver Dolomite 73-80 I Dark-gray to black thin-bedded dolomite.
Chaffee
Devonian Formation Parting I 45-57 i Ta
Quartzite n, pink, and white quartzite and conglomerate.
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Ordovician I Harding
Quartzite I i 0-27 i Tan, white, and green quartzite and sandstone.
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Peerless ------------_--.-
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Formation 35-99 Buff, purple, greet;, and pink sandy dolomite and Cambrian dolomitic sandstone.
Sawatch 140-185 I Thin-bedded to massive white quartzite.
Quartzite