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'

Location:	Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.47472, -106.91284
dep_id:	10014559
mrds_id:	D011384
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Gold, Silver
Minor mineral:	Zinc, Lead, Copper
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 Amphibolite And Metasediments
Reporter:	Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit:	Metamorphic Rocks--Amphibolite;Metamorphic Rocks--Quartz-Biotite Schist, Gneiss, And Migmatite
hrock_type:	Schist,Gneiss,Migmatite,Amphibolite
arock_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:	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