Mine detail: Lucky Strike Mine

Previously called 'Belle Valaisane, MS 13897Patented Claims: Lucky Strike, MS 9125Mammoth, MS 13897Horse Shoe, MS 17122Only Chance, MS 17455Modoc, MS 17455'

Location:	Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.43111, -106.85368
dep_id:	10013145
mrds_id:	D009284
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Gold
Minor mineral:	Silver
Trace mineral:	Copper, Tellurium, Zinc
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite
gangue:	Biotite, Fluorite, Sericite, Tourmaline
work_type:	Underground
ore_ctrl:	Quartz Veins Cutting Precambrian Metamorphic And Igneous Rocks
Reporter:	Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit:	Dubois Greenstone--Amphibolite;Metasedimentary Rocks;Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry;Metarhyolite And Aplite Dikes
hrock_type:	Schist,Amphibolite
arock_unit:	Quartz Diorite To Quartz Monzonite Of Gold Basin;Quartz Vein
arock_type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Structure:	Gunnison Uplift; San Juan Volcanic Field, Gunnison Gold Belt, Iris Syncline, Lulu Fault, Gold Basin Stock
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
yr_lst_prd:	1934
disc_yr:	1895
discr:	F.S. Cuenin And Pat Daly (Claimants) (Claimants)
References:	Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE IRIS QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1286 Deposit:: HILL, J.M., 1909, NOTES ON THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF SOUTHEASTERN GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO; USGS BULL. 380, P. 37-38. Deposit:: AFIFI, A.M., 1981, STRATIGRAPHY, PETROLOGY, AND STRUCTURE OF PRECAMBRIAN METAVOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE IRIS DISTRICT, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 287-292. Deposit:: AFIFI, A.M., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE IRIS AREA, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES M.SC. THESIS T-2302. Deposit:: 5) COLORADO DIV. OF MINES INSP. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS. Deposit:: 6) BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 9125, 13897, 17122, 17455 Deposit:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.; INSPECTORS REPTS. 6/23/22, 12/12/33, 10/11/34, 5/31/49; MINE MGR. REPT. 1900, PT.1,P.285 Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES AND OPERATOR REPTS. AND INSPECTORS REPTS.