Mine detail: Grape Creek/Greenhorn District

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

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Location

Lat / long: 38.39168, -105.33113

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver
Secondary: Thorium, Barium-Barite
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite, Thorite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1943
Last production ended: 1945

Geology

Host rock:Migmatitic Gneiss
Host type:Schist,Gneiss
Associated 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)
Alteration processes:Kaolinization

References

MRDSD009878
DEP10013528
Reference{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OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 85-86.}{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Deposit:: Sheridan, D.M., Raymond, W.H., Taylor, R.B., and Hasler, J.W., 1990, Metallogenic map of stratabound exhalative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}
ReporterCollins, Donna B., Keller, John W.