Mine detail: Buffalo Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.39221, -105.28614

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Pyrite
Gangue:	Barite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1895
Last production ended:	1898

Geology

Host rock:	Pikes Peak Granite (Granodiorite And Quartz Monzonite);Pikes Peak Granite (Granite)
Host type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Associated rock:	Pikes Peak Granite (Granodiorite And Quartz Monzonite);Pikes Peak Granite (Granite)
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Granite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Pine Gulch Fault
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Fe Oxides

References

MRDS	D010210
DEP	10013749
Reference	{Deposit:: AURAND, H.A., 1920, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 18, P. 60-61}{Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PINE QUADRANGLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-598.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.