Mine detail: Skek City Mine

Previously called 'Skek Mine'

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.04815, -105.37885
dep_id: 10101568
mrds_id: D004939
mas_id: 80270042
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Nickel, Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold
Operation type: Underground
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Prospect
other_matl: Chalcopyrite, Millerite, Pyrite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
ore_ctrl: Fractures In Gneiss
Reporter: Klein, Terry, Wilson, Anna B., Collins, Donna B., Foord, Suzann C, Hite, Alan G.
hrock_unit: Undivided Gneiss
hrock_type: Schist,Gneiss
Structure: Wet Mountains, Silver Cliff Colvanics/Graben, Wet Valley Graben
tectonic: Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1922
References:
  • 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.
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