Mine detail: Grape Creek/Greenhorn District

Previously called 'See: Hellgate ClaimsBear Claims Old Conac PropertyWagner-Grape Creek LodeDawson gold projectCopper King Mine'

Location:	Fremont County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.39168, -105.33113
dep_id:	10013528
mrds_id:	D009878
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver
Minor mineral:	Thorium, Barium-Barite
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite, Thorite
model:	271: Stratabound Precambrian sulfide, Colorado and Wyoming
alteration:	Kaolinization
ore_ctrl:	Shear Zone; Faults, Fault Intersections
Reporter:	Collins, Donna B., Keller, John W.
hrock_unit:	Migmatitic Gneiss
hrock_type:	Schist,Gneiss
arock_type:	Granitoid
Structure:	Northern Wet Mountains, Shear Zone Strikes N 55-60 W, Dips Vertically; Mill Creek Fault; Offshoots Of Ilse Fault
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Year first produced:	1943
yr_lst_prd:	1945
References:	Deposit:: COKER, R.J., 1982, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ARKANSAS CANYON PLANNING UNIT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE FORMER GRAPE CREEK WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS AND THE MCINTYRE HILLS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA: US BLM MINERAL REPORT, P. 87-90 Deposit:: TAYLOR, R.B., SCOTT, G.R., WOBUS, R.A. AND EPIS, R.C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROYAL GORGE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-869, 1:62,500 Deposit:: USBM MINERAL EXAMINATION FILE Deposit:: CONSV. DIVISION COMP. DATE, 1, 64 Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 85-86. Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey. Deposit:: Sheridan, D.M., Raymond, W.H., Taylor, R.B., and Hasler, J.W., 1990, Metallogenic map of stratabound exhalative and related occurrences in Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1971, scale 1:1,000,000 Deposit:: Heinrich, E.W., 1981, Precambrian tungsten and copper-zinc skarn deposits of south-central Colorado: Colorado Geological survey Resource Series 21, 115 p. Production:: VANDERWILT, 1947