Mine detail: Gypse Queen Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.50056, -105.96726

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Cuprite, Gold, Silver
Gangue:	Apatite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Diopside, Feldspar, Grossularite, Hornblende, Quartz, Scapolite, Tourmaline, Vesuvianite
Discovery year:	1901

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Metavolcanic And Metasedimentary Rocks
Host type:	Gneiss,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure:	Southern Mosquito Range, Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Nw-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:	Surface Rocks Highly Altered; Scapolitization

References

MRDS	D004891
DEP	10010864
Reference	{Deposit:: COLORADO BUREAU OF MINES ANNUAL REPORT 1901 1902}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.}
Reporter	Foord, Suzann C, Collins, Donna B.