Mine detail: Colorado Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claims MS 17461: DenverGold MedalMinnie O.Gold QueenGood LuckOrphan BoyGold SpikeGold King No. 2JokerGold GirlUn Patented Claims: Colorado'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.72915, -105.6231

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Ore: Pyrite
Discovery year: 1905

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
Host type:Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:Sherman Granite;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porhyry
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite
Structure:Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDSD010590
DEP10087882
Reference{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 285-286.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.