Mine detail: Dawson Gold Project

Previously called 'Copper King MineDawson Mountain-Surprise Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.38973, -105.3039

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Secondary: Silver

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:schist, gneiss
Host type:Metasedimentary Rock,Metavolcanic Rock
Associated type:Granodiorite
Alteration processes:sulfide mineralization

References

DEP10311030
Reference{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Deposit:: Sheridan, D.M., Raymond, W.H., Taylor, R.B., and Hasler, J.W., 1990, Metallogenic map of stratabound exhalative and related occurrences in Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1971, scale 1:1,000,000}{Deposit:: Heinrich, E.W., 1981, Precambrian tungsten and copper-zinc skarn deposits of south-central Colorado: Colorado Geological survey Resource Series 21, 115 p.}{Deposit:: Vanderwilt, J.W., 1947, Mineral resources of Colorado: State of Colorado Mineral Resources Board, 547 p.}{Geology:: TAYLOR, R. B., SCOTT, G. R., WOBUS, R. A., AND EPIS, R. C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROYAL GORGE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-869, 1: 62,500.}
ReporterKeller, John W.