Mine detail: Carter Mine

Previously called 'Carter Tunnel'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.49915, -105.20892

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Tungsten
Ore:	Scheelite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Tonalite;Metasedimentary Rocks--Mica Schist
Host type:	Tonalite
Associated rock:	Tonalite;Diorite
Associated type:	Tonalite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Cheyenne Basin, Big Thompson Anticline, Milner Mountain Fault, Fletcher Hill (Buck Horn) Fault, Masonville Anticline, Buckhorn Syncline, Masonville Stock , Redstone Fault.
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010550
DEP	10013971
Reference	{Deposit:: WOLFE, J.A., 1953, GEOLOGY OF THE MASONVILLE MINING DISTRICT, LARIM ER COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES M.SC. THESIS T-789.}{Deposit:: BRADDOCK, W.A., AND OTHERS, 1970, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MASONVILLE QU ADRANGLE, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-832.}{Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISO N, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM IC-7748, P . 18.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.