Mine detail: Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims

Previously called 'High Kicker Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.18362, -105.21751

Resource(B)

Primary: Lead, Silver, Zinc, Uranium
Secondary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore: Silver, Cerussite
Gangue: Calcite, Limonite, Fluorite
Discovery year: 1887

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1887
Last production ended: 1893

Geology

Host rock:Undivided Gneiss
Host type:Gneiss,Granite
Associated type:Pyroxenite
Structure:Wet Mountains, Ilse Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera, Southern Rockies
Alteration processes:Extensive Oxidation And Alteration

References

MRDSD008910
DEP10087740
Reference{Deposit:: HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.}
ReporterCollins, Donna B.