Mine detail: Winnie Claims

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Location:	Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.50556, -105.96448
dep_id:	10013945
mrds_id:	D010517
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tungsten
Minor mineral:	Copper
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	No production occurred
Development status:	Occurrence
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Scheelite
gangue:	Quartz, Scapolite
ore_ctrl:	Fractures
Reporter:	Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit:	Migmatitic Gneiss
hrock_type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, Nw-Trending Faults
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
References:	Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISO N, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATIO N CIRCULAR 7748, P. 3-7. Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000. Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DE POSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, P. 56-60 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 T HE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P. Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE, INT HE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLOR ADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V. 55, P. 1406-1428.