Mine detail: Independence Mine

Previously called 'Claims: Independence, MS 1421Gatton, MS 1422Dolly Varden, MS 1423Mammoth, MS 1424'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.10888, -106.61256

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver
Gangue:	Quartz
Discovery year:	1879

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1879

Geology

Host type:	Schist
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Quartz Latite,Latite
Structure:	Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith, Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Fe Oxides, Cu Carbonates

References

MRDS	D010412
DEP	10013874
Reference	{Deposit:: CRUSON, M.G., 1973, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GRIZZLY PEAK CAULDRON COMPLEX, SAWATCH RANGE, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES PH.D. THESIS T-1538}{Deposit:: ROHLFING, D.P., 193?, REPORT ON THE INDEPENDENCE GOLD PROPERTY, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE PLANNING COMM. UNPUB. REPT., 7 P.}{Deposit:: HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P.}{Deposit:: LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND ELLIS, C.E., 1981, MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-D. & &}{Deposit:: LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND YEOMAN, R.A., 1980, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AREA AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-A.}{Production:: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.