Mine detail: Big Stake Nickel Deposit

Previously called 'Big Stake Claim'

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.12918, -105.32085
dep_id: 10010845
mrds_id: D004848
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Nickel, Silver, Cobalt
Operation type: Surface
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Gold, Silver
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
Reporter: Foord, Suzann C, Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Undivided Gneiss
hrock_type: Schist,Gneiss,Peridotite
Structure: Wet Mountains, Rosita Caldera
tectonic: Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
disc_yr: 1932
References:
  • Deposit:: BIG STAKE NICKEL PROPERTY 1942 WAR MINERALS REPORT 1 7P.
  • Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 480.
  • Deposit:: COLORADO DIVISION MINES INSPECTION RECORDS
  • Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.
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