Mine detail: Cache Creek Park Placers

Previously called 'Cache Creek Hydraulic Cut'

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Location: Chaffee County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.04582, -106.27839
dep_id: 10018137
mrds_id: DC04939
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Placer
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Gold
conc_proc: Placer Concentration
Reporter: Collins, Donna B., Unknown
hrock_unit: Unconsolidated Deposits Of Old Gravels And Alluviums;Unconsolidated Deposits Of Alluvium
hrock_type: Gravel
Structure: Sawatch Range, Arkansas Valley Graben, N- And Ene-Trending Faults
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Year first produced: 1860
ylp_ba: >
yr_lst_prd: 1918
disc_yr: 1860
References:
  • Deposit:: BLM CONNECTING SHEETS
  • Deposit:: PARKER, B.H., JR., 1974, GOLD PLACERS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY, V. 69, NO. 4, P. 64-75
  • Deposit:: TWETO, OGDEN, MOENCH, R.H., REED, J.C., JR., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LEADVILLE 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-999, 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64
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