Mine detail: Gold Bug Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.64028, -105.97726

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Uranium
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Gold, Silver
Gangue: Limonite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1900

Geology

Host type:Diorite
Associated rock:Granodiorite
Associated type:Diorite,Plutonic Rock
Structure:Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Pleasant Valley Syncline, E-W-Trending Faults
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

References

MRDSD010352
DEP10013830
Reference{Deposit:: LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1908, NOTES ON COPPER DEPOSITS IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS BULLETIN 340, P. 157-174.}{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:: BHUTTA, M.A., 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE AND FREMONT COUNTIES, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES PHD THESIS, 173 P.}{Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULLETIN 40, P. 89}
ReporterCollins, Donna B.