Mine detail: Duffields Deposit

Previously called 'Leyte, MS 20742Hughes Boss Shaft and Leyte Open PitClaims: Hughes Boss, MS 14464'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.73834, -104.90917

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver
Ore: Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Barite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1901

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1910
Last production ended: 1945

Geology

Host rock:Pikes Peak Granite
Host type:Granite
Associated rock:Pikes Peak Granite;Aplite Dike
Associated type:Granite
Structure:Front Range Uplift, Pikes Peak Batholith, Mt Rosa Intrusive Center, Ute Pass Fault, Manitou Park Half Graben
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Wallrock Silicification

References

MRDSD010307
DEP10087849
Reference{Deposit:: TRIMBLE, D.E., AND MACHETTE, M.N., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS-CASTLE ROCK AREA, FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-857-F.}{Deposit:: FINLAY, G.I., 1916, DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 203.}{Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., 1949, GEOLOGY AND FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF THE ST. PETERS DOME DISTRICT, COLORADO: COLORADO SCI. SOC. PROC., V. 15, NO. 6, P. 259-284.}{Deposit:: PEARL, R.M., 1965, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE: DENVER, SAGE BOOKS, P. 171-180.}{Deposit:: OVER, EDWIN, JR., 1929, SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES OF EL PASO COUNTY: ROCKS AND MINERALS, V. 4, NO. 4, P. 106-107.}{Production:: STEVEN, 1949}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.