Mine detail: Gold Basin District

Previously called 'Ms 1984Patented Claim: Belle Flora'

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Location: Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.44083, -106.89451
dep_id: 10014557
mrds_id: D011382
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Minor mineral: Copper, Zinc, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Biotite, Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz, Sericite, Tourmaline
ore_ctrl: Quartz Veins Cutting Igneous And Metamorphic Rocks
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metamorphic Rocks--Schist, Gneiss, And Migmatite;Metamorphic Rocks--Amphibolite
hrock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Schist,Gneiss,Migmatite
arock_unit: Quartz Diorite To Quartz Monzonite Of Gold Basin;Quartz Vein;Diabase Dikes
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Diabase
Structure: Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, West Elk Centers, Gunnison Gold Belt, Iris Syncline, Unnamed Anticline, Gold Basin Stock
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
disc_yr: 1886
discr: H.H. Holford (Claimant)
References:
  • Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE IRIS NW QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1134.
  • Deposit:: OLSON, J.C., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE IRIS QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1286.
  • Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY ALONG PARTS OF THE GUNNISON UPLIFT OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 267-272.
  • Deposit:: DROBECK, P.A., 1979, GEOLOGY AND TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF A PART OF THE GUNNISON GOLD BELT, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES M.SC. THESIS T-2251.
  • Deposit:: DROBECK, P.A., 1981, PROTEROZOIC SYNGENETIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE GUNNISON GOLD BELT, COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 279-286.
  • Deposit:: AFIFI, A.M., 1981, STRATIGRAPHY, PETROLOGY, AND STRUCTURE OF PRECAMBRIAN METAVOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE IRIS DISTRICT, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 287-292.
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1984
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