Mine detail: Gold Coin Mine

Previously called 'Companion LodeAm Erican EagleDolly GereJuniperGaskosagaAspenUnpatented Claims: Gold CoinCamp Bird'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.7322, -105.59977
dep_id: 10013999
mrds_id: D010592
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Pyrite
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Sherman Granite;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 285-286.
  • Deposit:: MARKS, J.H., 1935, REPORT ON MINING PROPERTY OF C.M. GERE, ET. AL., THE GOLD COIN MNG. SYNDICATE, MANHATTAN MNG. DISTRICT, LARIMER COUNTY : COLORADO ST. PLAN. COMM. UNPUB. REPT., 2 P., 3 MAPS.
  • Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.
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