G.L. Davis Mine

Past Producer in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Magnesite
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010863
MRDS ID D004888
Record type Site
Current site name G.L. Davis Mine
Related records 10207818

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.92976, 38.51361 (WGS84)
Elevation 2498
Relative position 4.5 MILES S64E OF SALIDA POST OFFICE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salida East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 49N 09E 12 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • POSSIBLY ALSO SECTION 13; NORTH OF US HWY 50, NEAR CHAFFEE-FREMONT COUNTY BORDER ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Magnesite Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Leadville Limestone, Chaffee Group (Dyer Dolomite, Parting Formation;Fremont Dolomite, Harding Sandstone, Manitou Limestone
    Rock description Leadville Limestone, Chaffee Group (Dyer Dolomite, Parting Formation;Fremont Dolomite, Harding Sandstone, Manitou Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.92976, 38.51361

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Sangre De Cristo Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wellsville Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MINERAL PROPERTIES FILE

  • Deposit

    ROLD, J.W., 1950, GEOLOGY OF THE WELLSVILLE AREA, NORTH FLANK OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS: COMPASS, V. 27.

  • Deposit

    ROLD, J.W., 1961, THE STRUCTURE AND LOWER AND MIDDLE PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE WELLSVILLE AREA, COLORADO, IN SYMPOSIUM ON LOWER AND MIDDLE PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF COLORADO, 12 TH FIELD CONFERENCE: ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION OF GEOLOGISTS GUIDEBOOK

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 X 2 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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