Mine detail: Rockfield Mine

Previously called 'Unpatented Claims: RodkfieldPendergast TunnelValentine Lod EMatchless Nos. 1 and 2'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.71165, -105.60254
dep_id: 10014002
mrds_id: D010597
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
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: 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)
Year first produced: 1937
yr_lst_prd: 1941
disc_yr: 1916
discr: Carroll Alsbury (Pendergast Tunnel Claimant)
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:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.
  • Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.
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