Mine detail: Grand View Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.51722, -105.9392

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Tungsten, Gold
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Gold, Malachite, Scheelite
Gangue: Quartz, Scapolite
Discovery year: 1890

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1890
Last production ended: 1905

Geology

Host rock:Migmatitic Gneiss
Host type:Schist,Gneiss,Amphibolite
Associated rock:Granitic Rocks
Associated type:Diorite
Structure:Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Major, Flat Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:Oxidation

References

MRDSD010134
DEP10013703
Reference{Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 3-7}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000}{Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN, TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, P. 56-60}{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., 1961, MINERALS OF COLORADO, A 100-YEAR RECORD: USGS BULLETIN 1114, P. 121}{Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 55, P. 1406-1428.}{Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.}{Deposit:: BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.}
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