Mine detail: Mammoth Good Hope Mine

Previously called 'Good Hope MineGood Hope, Mammoth Chimney'

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Location: Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.34306, -107.00729
dep_id: 10013249
mrds_id: D009438
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver, Tellurium, Sulfur
Minor mineral: Copper
Trace mineral: Zinc, Antimony, Vanadium, Bismuth, Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Petzite, Rickardite, Sphalerite, Sulfur, Sylvanite, Tetradymite
gangue: Jasper, Limonite, Roscoelite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Dubois Greenstone (Felsite And Felsite Porphyry);Quartz Vein
hrock_type: Mafic Intrusive Rock,Schist,Felsic Volcanic Rock
arock_unit: Granite Of Tolvar Peak;Quartz Vein
arock_type: Granite
Structure: Gunnison Uplift; San Juan Volcanic Field, Gunnison Gold Belt
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns); Colorado Platform
Year first produced: 1898
yr_lst_prd: 1930
disc_yr: 1898
discr: J. A. Himebaugh And Others (Claimants)
References:
  • Deposit:: OLSON, J. C., STEVEN, T. A., AND HEDLUND, D. C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SPRING HILL CREEK QUADRANGLE, SAGUACHE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-713
  • Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE POWDERHORN QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1178
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 12454 AND 12456
  • Deposit:: SHARPS, T.I., 1965, SULFUR DEPOSITS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULL., V. 8, NO. 6 &&
  • Deposit:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPORTS AND INSPECTORS REPORTS. &&
  • Deposit:: NELSON, A.P., NO DATE , MINING DISTRICTS, PRODUCING MINES AND PROSPECTIVE PROPERTIES (OF GUNNISON CO.): COLO. STATE PLAN. COMM. UNPUB. REPT. &&
  • Deposit:: LAKES, ARTHUR, 1898, ORES OF THE VULCAN MINE: MINES AND MINERALS, V. 18, JULY, P. 562-563
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