Mine detail: Wire Patch Mine

Previously called 'Elephant Tunnel and ore bodyMill Tunnel'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.48443, -105.96838

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Secondary: Lead
Ore: Pyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Rhodochrosite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Pierre Shale, quartz monzonite porphyry
Host type:Black Shale,Porphyry
Structure:intrusion breccia
Alteration processes:sericitized porpphyry

References

MRDSDE00892
DEP10021683
Reference{Deposit:: RANSOME, F.L., 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BRECKENRIDGE DISTRICT, COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 75, P. 150.}{Deposit:: WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., 1991, ASCII DATABASE FOR PRINCIPAL LODE MINES AND MINERALIZED AREAS IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 91-0027A AND B, 22 P. AND ONE DISKETTE.}{Deposit:: WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., IN PRESS, MINERALIZED AREAS AND PRINCIPAL LODE MINES IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-2163, SCALE 1:50,000.}{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Deposit:: Lovering, T. S., and Goddard, E. N., 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Front Range, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 223, 319 p.}
ReporterConservation Division Files, Beach, Richard A.