Mine detail: Farnham

Previously called 'Pueblo GroupWonder RockCanfield TunnelDenfield MineCooney'

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Location

Lat / long:

42.11657, -118.63021

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Copper, Gold, Mercury, Silver
Other material:	Azurite, Bornite, Chalcedony, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Cinnabar, Covellite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Tenorite, Tetrahedrite
Discovery year:	1916

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1919

Geology

References

MRDS	M054953
MAS	410250039
DEP	10249851
Reference	{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 995-B, 1953, P. 19-77.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 55, 1963, P. 202.}{Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, TABLE 26, P. 330.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 61, 1968, P. 161.}{Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 8-87, 1987, TABLE 1,}{Deposit:: NO. 26, P. 23.}{Deposit:: RAMBOSEK & HOLDEN,1956, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION PRELIM.}{Deposit:: RECONNAISANCE REPORT R-91, U.S.G.S. LIBRARY, DENVER, COLO.}
Reporter	Munts, Steven R.