American Flag Mine

Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010841
MRDS ID D004840
Record type Site
Current site name American Flag Mine
Alternate or previous names Anaconda Mine, Crete Mine, Ethel Consolidation Mine, Holdredge Mine See Location Comments Below
Related records 10117754

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.00253, 38.63222 (WGS84)
Elevation 2681
Relative position 1.1 MILE S75W OF TURRET

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nathrop(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel 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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 51N 09E 32 SW OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • THESE MINES AND CLAIMS ALL LIE WITHIN THE DISTRICT, BUT EXACT LOCATIONS FOR THEM ARE UNKNOWN. MOST PROBABLY LIE IN SECTIONS 29 AND 28. SOME UNDOUBTEDLY ARE ON THE CAMERON MOUNTAIN (1:24000) AND PUEBLO (1:250,000) QUADRANGLES. EXACT LOCATIONS ARE GIVEN ABOVE FOR ONE MINE, BUT IT IS UNKNOWN WHICH MINE IT IS. SEE TURRET DISTRICT RECORD FOR MORE INFORMATION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Apatite Gangue
Barite Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Gahnite Gangue
Opal Gangue
Psilomelane Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Hornblende Gneiss
    Rock description Hornblende Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.00253, 38.63222

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description N-Trending Faults, Pleasant Valley Syncline

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Between N-Trending Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1901

Mining district

District name Turret District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Foord, Suzann C U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.