Mine detail: Champion Shaft

Previously called 'Ms 2318Patented Claim: Champion'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.94612, -107.48035

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold
Secondary:	Gemstone
Tertiary:	Zinc, Manganese
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Quartz, Rhodochrosite
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1877
Last production ended:	1974

Geology

Host rock:	Megabreccia Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Granite Of Cataract Canyon;Ash-Flow Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Rhyolite,Granite
Structure:	San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Silverton Caldera, Eureka Graben
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D011652
DEP	10014741
Reference	{Deposit:: BROWN, W.H., 1926, THE MINERAL ZONES OF THE WHITE CROSS DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORING DEPOSITS IN HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: MINES MAG., V. 15, NO. 11, P. 5-15.}{Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.}{Deposit:: WOOLSEY, L.H., 1907, LAKE FORK EXTENSION OF THE SILVERTON MINING AREA, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 315, P. 26-30.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.}{Deposit:: KRASOWSKI, D.J., 1976, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF BURROWS PARK, HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE UNIV. M.SC. THESIS, 111 P.}{Deposit:: HOLMES, R.W., AND KENNEDY, M.B., 1983, CHAMPION MINE, IN MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO): NEW YORK, VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD CO., P. 185-186.}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.