Mine detail: Gunnison District

Previously called 'Patented Claims: Pure Gold, MS 8430Boulginour, MS 10712Golden Era, MS 10712Gage, MS 10713Hunter, MS 10713W.C. Dillon, MS 10715Syndicate, MS 10716Golden Stair, MS 11268'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.47472, -106.91284

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Biotite, Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz, Sericite, Tourmaline

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Metamorphic Rocks--Amphibolite;Metamorphic Rocks--Quartz-Biotite Schist, Gneiss, And Migmatite
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss,Migmatite,Amphibolite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Granite
Structure:	Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, West Elk Centers, Gunnison Gold Belt, Iris Syncline, Unnamed Anticline
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D011384
DEP	10014559
Reference	{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:: 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 SURVEYS MS 8430, 10712, 10713, 10715, 10716, 11268}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.