1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Hector Prospect

Prospect in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodity Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012190
MRDS ID D007661
Record type Site
Current site name Hector Prospect
Alternate or previous names Contact, Groundhog, Tressie B. Claims

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.32418, 38.12751 (WGS84)
Elevation 2758
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position 2.1 MILES N18E 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 21 NW OF NE OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SE OF MOUNT TYNDALL , 0.6 MILE DUE EAST OF QUERIDA ; IN THE NE/4 SEC. 21, T 22 S, R 71 W; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Strongly Argillized

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 82
USGS model code 22
Deposit model name Epithermal veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
    Rock description Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.32418, 38.12751
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns
Type of structure Local
Structure description Breccia Pipe

Ore body information

  • General form breccia pipe
    Strike N45W
    Dip 30
    Length 36.58M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • On Trachyte Boundary Within Breccia Pipe

Comments on the geologic information

  • BRECCIA PIPE SIMILAR(?) TO BASSICK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1881

Mining district

District name Rosita Hills District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A 1981 report suggested that low-grade, bulk-tonnage silver deposits may occur in this area. (Sunshine files)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 780.9M
    Overall depth 124.97M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, TUNNELS, ADITS, DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS, RAISES

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.

  • Reserve-Resource

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 04-APR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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