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Golden Gate Mine

Past Producer in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012188
MRDS ID D007658
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Gate Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -105.34029, 38.12834 (WGS84)
Elevation 2746
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position 2.1 MILES N03W FROM ROSITA, CO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Tyndall(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 022S 071W 16 SW OF SW OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ACROSS QUERIDA GULCH FROM MT TYNDALL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) advanced argillic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Trachyandesite
    Rock unit name Bunker Trachyandesite;San Isabel Gneiss
    Rock description Bunker Trachyandesite;San Isabel Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Trachyandesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -105.34029, 38.12834
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ring Fault, Small Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Fissures, Many Small Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • GNEISS FOUND AT BOTTOM OF SHAFT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882

Mining district

District name Rosita

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 15.24M
    Overall depth 60.96M
    Overall length 15.24M
    Overall width 1.22M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT WITH DRIFT AT BOTTOM; DRIFT RUNS NEARLY EAST IN GNEISS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CROSS, WHITMAN, 1896, GEOLOGY OF SILVER CLIFF AND THE ROSITA HILLS, COLORADO: USGS 17TH ANN. REPORT, PT 2, P. 263-403.

  • Deposit

    SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAPS I-1081.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870-1895

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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