Mine detail: Mt. Hope Mine

Previously called 'Mount Hope Mill Site, MS 1881bGolden Champion, MS 1882aGolden Champion Mill Site, MS 1882bClaims:Mount Hope, MS 1881a'

Location:	Pitkin County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	39.11055, -106.6284
dep_id:	10101854
mrds_id:	D010415
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Gold, Silver, Copper
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver
gangue:	Quartz
ore_ctrl:	Mineralization Localized In Quartz Vein Filling Post-Collapse Concentric(?) Fault Beyond North Rim Of Main Collapse Structure.
Reporter:	Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_type:	Schist
arock_type:	Diorite,Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Structure:	Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith, Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced:	1879
disc_yr:	1879
References:	Deposit:: CRUSON, M.G., 1973, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GRIZZLY PEAK CAULDRON COMPLEX, SAWATCH RANGE, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES PH.D. THESIS T-1538. Deposit:: ROHLFING, D.P., 193? REPORT ON THE INDEPENDENCE GOLD PROPERTY, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE PLANNING COMM. UNPUB. REPT., 7 P. Deposit:: HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P. Deposit:: LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND ELLIS, C.E., 1981, MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-D. && Deposit:: LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND YEOMAN, R.A., 1980, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AREA AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-A.