Mine detail: Champaign Mine

Previously called 'Champaign and Coney claimsChampaign and Coney Mines'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.30471, -106.16005

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead, Zinc, Gold
Tertiary: Uranium
Ore: Sphalerite, Galena, Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite, Pitchblende
Other material: Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1876

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Polymetallic vein
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Silver Plume Granite
Host type:Plutonic Rock

References

MAS80930030
DEP10288297
Reference{Deposit:: Singewald, Q., 1935, Relations of hydrothermal alteration of porphyries to ore deposition in the Alma District, Colorado: Economic Geology, v. 30, no. 5, p. 537.}{Deposit:: Patton, H.B., Hoskin, A.J., and Butler, G.M., 1912, Geology and ore deposits of the Ama District, Park County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 3, pl. 1, Appendix B, p. 248, 264.}{Deposit:: Singewald, Q., and Butler, B.S., 1932, Suggestions for prospecting in the Alma District, Colorado: Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 4; fig. 6, p. 104.}{Deposit:: Singewald, Q. D., and Butler, B.S., 1941, Ore deposits in the vicinity of the London Fault of Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 911, pls. 1, 3, 4.}{Deposit:: DMEA Records}{Deposit:: BLM Connecting Sheets}{Deposit:: Cons. Div. Comp. Date. 9, 64.}{Deposit:: Mine Map repo #403506 #403510 #403514}{Deposit:: MAS Oct. 1976 file}{Deposit:: Mineral Property File}
ReporterMinecom, Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Wilson, Anna B., Conservation Division Files, Hasler, J. William