Mine detail: Augusta Mine

Previously called 'Augusta Lode Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.61749, -105.3178

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary:	Stone, Crushed/Broken
Tertiary:	Zinc, Lead, Gold, Cobalt
Ore:	Chalcocite, Fluorite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Barite, Malachite, Willemite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1966

Geology

Host rock:	Idaho Springs Formation---Migmatite
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Denver Basin, Kennedy Gulch Fault Zone, Floyd Hill-Bergen Park Fracture Zone, Yankee Creek Pluton
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010219
MAS	80590026
DEP	10101840
Reference	{Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CONIFER QUADRANGLE, JEFEERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-597}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1908, NOTES ON COPPER DEPOSITS IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLO.: USGS BULL. 340, P. 157-174.}{Deposit:: AURAND, H.A., 1920, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 18, P. 58-59}{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 67-68, 279}{Deposit:: POUGH, F.H., 1941, THE OCCURRENCE OF WILLEMITE: AM. MINERALOGIST, V. 26, NO. 2, P. 92-102}{Deposit:: HEYL, A.V., 1964, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, PART 3-COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1135-C, P. C13, C56.}{Deposit:: MINOBRAS [copied from deleted record 10288633 = MAS 0080590026]}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D., Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Wilson, Anna B.