Mine detail: Cripple Creek District

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Location

Lat / long: 38.73333, -105.15057

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver, Semiprecious Gemstone
Tertiary: Tellurium
Ore: Calaverite, Gold, Sylvanite, Turquoise, Krennerite
Gangue: Adularia, Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Pyrite, Quartz, Roscoelite, Ankerite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Producer

Geology

Structure:volcanic/diatreme complex
Alteration processes:potassium and carbonate metasomatism

References

MRDSD001977
DEP10311065
Reference{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., and Ransome, F. L., 1906, Geology and gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 54, 516 p.}{Deposit:: Loughlin, G. F., and Koschmann, A. H., 1935, Geology and ore deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 6, p. 217-435.}{Deposit:: Koschmann, A. H., 1949, Structural control of the gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Teller County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 955-B, p. 19-60.}{Deposit:: Koschmann, A. H., and Bergendahl, M. H., 1968, Principal gold-producing districts of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 610, 283 p.}{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Deposit:: Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. corporate info., accessed from internet on 4/13/2006}{Deposit:: Jensen, E. P., 2003, Magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Cripple Creek gold deposit, Colorado, and comparisons with regional and global magmatic-hydrothermal systems associated with alkaline magmatism: Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona, Ph.D. dissertation, 846 p.}{Deposit:: Vardiman, D.M., Roy, E., Thornton, D., Nicholson, D., White, D., and Melker, M., 2006, Geology and exploration developments, Cripple Creek mining district, Colorado, USA: Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co., Geology Field Guide, 11 p.}{Geology:: Thompson, T. B., 1986, Geology and mineral deposits, Cripple Creek district, Colorado, in Cripple Creek mining district: Denver Region Exploration Geologists Society Fall Field Guidebook, pp. 16-63.}{Reserve-Resource:: Golden Cycle Gold Corp. corporate info., accessed from internet on 4/13/2006}
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