Mine detail: Skek City Mine

Previously called 'Skek Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.04815, -105.37885

Resource(M)

Primary:	Nickel, Copper
Secondary:	Silver, Gold
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Other material:	Chalcopyrite, Millerite, Pyrite
Discovery year:	1922

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Undivided Gneiss
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss
Structure:	Wet Mountains, Silver Cliff Colvanics/Graben, Wet Valley Graben
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns

References

MRDS	D004939
MAS	80270042
DEP	10101568
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM MINERAL PROPERTY FILE #45.3 SKEK CITY MINE 1942 FILE AT IFOC BLDG 20 DENVER FEDERAL CENTER}{Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 473.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIVISION MINES, 1982, INSPECTION RECORDS.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 X 2 degree QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.}
Reporter	Klein, Terry, Wilson, Anna B., Collins, Donna B., Foord, Suzann C, Hite, Alan G.