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Cold Spring Mine

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodity Tungsten
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008742
MRDS ID D001110
Record type Site
Current site name Cold Spring Mine
Alternate or previous names Cold Sping (note the misspelling)

Comments on the site names

  • Colo Metal Mining Fund Board book p. 21 says that Cold Spring No. 4 is the Pick and Gad. PP-245 (pl. 18 says that Cold Spring No. 3 is the Pick and Gad.
  • Mines mentioned as being previous names in a combined record for Cold Spring that do not appear to have individual entries include (note some irregular spellings copied from 10015992 before deleting): Diamind, Double, Header, Giermania, Madeline, New York, Orange Blossom, Pansy Blossom, Rany Day, and Reeves. Perhaps these are claim names? They are certainly not mine names. (A.B. Wilson, 12-DEC-2013)
  • Orange Blossom Shaft connects with Level 7 (see plate 18, PP-245)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.48139, 39.979 (WGS84)
Elevation 2539
Relative position 2 MILES NE OF NEDERLAND. Cordinates are for unnamed shaft shown, but not labeled, on topo, in NW4 sec. 8, about 680 m west of Orange Blossom Mine (shown as shaft on topo, north of center of sec. 8).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tungsten(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 001S 072W 8 NW4 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Orange Blossom Mine labeled on topo is NOT the same as the Orange Blossom shaft shown on pl. 18 of PP-245. In fact, the coordinates given for this record may actually be the Orange Blossom shaft (pl. 18, PP-245)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ferberite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization And Silicification Of Wall Rock

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 46
USGS model code 15a
Deposit model name W veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Precambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.48139, 39.979
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 E
    Dip STEEPLY NORTH

Comments on the ore body information

  • THE VEIN EXPOSED BY BULLDOZER TRENCHING DOES NOT CONTAIN ORE GRADE MATERIAL, AND PROBABLY DOES NOT AT DEPTH (DMEA-4072)

Comments on the geologic information

  • TUNGSTEN MINERALIZ. IN CHALCEDONIC QTZ VEINS OF TERTIARY AGE CUTTING PRECAMB. GRANITE AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS. MINUTE CRYS. OF FERBERITE DISSEM. THRU FINE GR. QTZ (HORN ORE), AND COARSELY CRYS. FERBERITE FORMING BRECCIA WITH COUNTRY ROCK AND EARLY QTZ VEINS (SOFT ORE) (Sharps, 1965, describing the district as a whole)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1908

Mining district

District name Boulder Tungsten

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wolf Tongue Mining Co
    Year 1945

Production statistics

  • Year 1921
    Period 1917-1921
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Tungsten Tungsten 2000WO3 9wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • OUTPUT WAS 14,301 TONS
  • OVER 100,000 UNITS WO3 (Sharps, 1965)

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE FOUND IN 6 SHOOTS, ONLY ONE OF WHICH WAS NEAR ENOUGH TO THE SURFACE TO BE EXPOSED IN TRENCHES.
  • Contains "old shaft," "new shaft," and "Lee Shaft," as well as "Orange Blossom Shaft." See pl. 18, PP-245.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    COLO. STATE METAL MINING FUND, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO: Colo. State Metal Mining Fund, 76 p.

  • Production

    LEMMON, D.M. (UNPUBLISHED DATA)

  • Deposit

    Lovering, T.S., and Goddard, E.N., 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Front Range, Colorado: USGS Prof. Paper 223, 319 p.

  • Deposit

    Lovering, T.S., and Tweto, Ogden, 1953, Geology and ore deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District, Colorado: USGS Prof. Paper 245, 199 p.

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1945, Boulder County Tungsten District, Boulder County, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines War Minerals Report No. 404, 22 p.

  • Deposit

    DMA Docket 1447, "Cold Sping" (note the misspelling) available at http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/alldockets.htm

  • Deposit

    Sharps, T.I., 1965, Tungsten in Colorado: Colo. School of Mines Mineral Industries Bulletin, v. 8, no. 5, 16 p.

  • Deposit

    COLO BOM 1943 LIST (MAS 0080130195 = 10117309)

  • Deposit

    DMEA Docket 4072, "No. 2 & 4 Mines" (note the incomplete mine name) available at http://minerals.usgs.gov/dockets/alldockets.htm

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10,62 (MRDS DC03266 = 10017310, DC00112 = 10015992)

  • Deposit

    COLO BOM 1957 LIST (from deleted 0080130194 = 10263227)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST TUNGSTEN VEINS 6IN TO 3FT THICK (Sharps, 1965, describing district as a whole)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1972-07-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey MRDS DC00089 = 10108016
Reporter 1973-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey MRDS DC03266 = 10017310, DC00112 = 10015992
Reporter 1973-04-01 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1978-04-01 Hassler, J. William U.S. Geological Survey MRDS D003220 = 10009929
Reporter 1983-11-17 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0080130195 = 10117309, MAS 0080130194 = 10263227
Editor 2007-05-22 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey also from MRDS D003220 = 10009929, MRDS DC03266 = 10017310, DC00112 = 10015992
Editor 2013-12-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted many duplicate records (why so many?) and disambiguated with another Cold Spring(s) mine (gold) farther to the NE in Boulder Co. in the Gold Hill area.

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