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Mineral Claims No. 2

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013038
MRDS ID D009113
Record type Site
Current site name Mineral Claims No. 2
Alternate or previous names Mineral Channel No.12

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.15528, 38.06974 (WGS84)
Elevation 2961
Relative position 12.5 MILES S 18 W OF WETMORE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 023S 069W 06 CENTER OF SW OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ONE MILE SE OF GOBBLERS KNOB ON NORTH BANK OF RUSHMER CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 30
USGS model code 11d
Deposit model name Thorium-rare-earth veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Migmatitic Gneiss
    Rock description Migmatitic Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wet Mountains
Type of structure Local
Structure description Large, N-Trending Anticline Or Antiform Structure

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Veins?

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wet Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIVISION MINES, 1977, SUMMARY OF MINERAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITY, 1977.

  • Deposit

    TAYLOR, R.B., 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DEER PEAK QUADRANGLE AND SOUTHERN PART OF THE HARDSCRABBLE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, CUSTER AND HUERFANO COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-870.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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

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