Mine detail: Gold Bug Mine

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Location: Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.64028, -105.97726
dep_id: 10013830
mrds_id: D010352
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Minor mineral: Copper
Trace mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Gold, Silver
gangue: Limonite, Quartz
work_type: Underground
ore_ctrl: E-W-Trending Faults; Quartz-Filled Fissure
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Diorite
arock_unit: Granodiorite
arock_type: Diorite,Plutonic Rock
Structure: Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Pleasant Valley Syncline, E-W-Trending Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Year first produced: 1900
References:
  • 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
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