Location: | Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.63222, -106.00253 |
dep_id: | 10010841 |
mrds_id: | D004840 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Gold |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Producer |
ore: | Gold |
gangue: | Actinolite, Apatite, Barite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Gahnite, Opal, Psilomelane, Quartz |
alteration: | Oxidation |
conc_proc: | Oxidation |
ore_ctrl: | Between N-Trending Faults |
Reporter: | Foord, Suzann C, Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Hornblende Gneiss |
hrock_type: | Schist,Gneiss |
arock_type: | Quartz Monzonite |
Structure: | Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, N-Trending Faults, Pleasant Valley Syncline |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains) |
dy_ba: | < |
disc_yr: | 1901 |
References: |
- Deposit:: COLORADO BUREAU OF MINES ANNUAL REPORT 1901, 1902
- Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, P. 100.
- Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.
- Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.
- Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS NE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 626, P. 43-44, MAP
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