Mine detail: Carter Mine

Previously called 'Carter Tunnel'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.49915, -105.20892
dep_id: 10013971
mrds_id: D010550
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Scheelite
ore_ctrl: Primary Joints And Fractures In Stock
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Tonalite;Metasedimentary Rocks--Mica Schist
hrock_type: Tonalite
arock_unit: Tonalite;Diorite
arock_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:
  • 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.
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