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Camp Bird Mine

Past Producer in Pitkin county in Colorado, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013241
MRDS ID D009429
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Bird Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims: Camp Bird, Camp Bird M. S.
Related records 10240569, 10264400

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.82479, 39.16388 (WGS84)
Elevation 3103
Relative position 1.7 MILES S 12 W FROM ASPEN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pitkin(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aspen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Roaring Fork(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Pitkin

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 010S 085W 24 SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • IN UPPER ASPEN MTN AREA AT TOURTELLOTTE PARK WEST OF SPAR GULCH. ELEV FROM SPURR (1898). LAT-LONG APPROXIMATED FROM BRYANT (1972) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1980)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Aplite Porphyry
    Rock description Aplite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Leadville Limestone (Redcliff And Castle Butte Members);Belden Formation
    Rock description Leadville Limestone (Redcliff And Castle Butte Mbrs);Belden Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.82479, 39.16388
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Piceance Basin, White River Uplift, Elk Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Silver Fault, Contact Fault, Aspen Mountain Syncline, Tourtellotte Park Uplift, Silver Bell Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Fault; Paleokarst

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882
Discoverer James Lyons And Others (Claimants)

Mining district

District name Aspen (Roaring Fork) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Royal Gold
  • Type Owner
    Owner Federal Resources

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 79.25M

Comments on the workings information

  • 260-FT-DEEP SHAFT WITH TWO LEVELS AND WESTWARD CROSSCUTS AT 190 FT AND 260 FT. UPPER LEVEL CONNECTS WITH LIBBIE BELL TUNNEL AND WORKINGS TO EAST. WORKINGS EXTEND SOUTH ACROSS SILVER BELL FAULT INTO IOWA CHIEF MINE WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • ROYAL GOLD, INC. OF DENVER, COLORADO TERMINATED ITS CAMP BIRD JOINT VENTURE WITH CHIPETA MINING CORP. AND OURAY VENTURES, INC. ROYAL GOLD WILL RECEIVE $3.7 MILLION IN CASH AND BECOME SOLE LESSEE OF THE MINE. THE JOINT VENTURE WAS ORIGINALLY FORMED IN 1986 TO CONDUCT EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAMP BIRD MINE. THE JOINT VENTURE ALSO HAD AN OPTION TO PURCHASE THE MINE AND MILL FROM FEDERAL RESOURCES, INC. THE VENTURE PARTNERS AGREED IN OCTOBER 1989, THAT DEVELOPMENT AND REASSAYING WORK HAD FAILED TO CONFIRM THE GOLD QUANTITIES IN THE MONUMENT VEIN AS SHOWN IN CHIPETA'S EARLIER DRILLING WORK FOR THE VENTURE. ROYAL GOLD BECAME THE OPERATOR ON OCTOBER 23, 1989, AND PLANS TO TEST THE POTENTIAL OF LEAD, ZINC, GOLD, AND SILVER DEPOSITS FOUND IN THE CAMP BIRD VEIN ON THE 3 LEVEL. THE FIRM WILL SOON UNDERTAKE AN UNDERGROUND DIAMOND DRILL PROGRAM TO DETERMINE WHETHER ENOUGH ORE EXISTS TO SUSTAIN AN ECONOMIC MINING OPERATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1898, GEOLOGY OF THE ASPEN DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS MON. 31, P. 172-173

  • Deposit

    BRYANT, BRUCE, 1971, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ASPEN QUADRANGLE, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-933.

  • Deposit

    BRYANT, BRUCE, 1972, MAP SHOWING MINES, PROSPECTS, AND AREAS OF SIGNIFICANT SILVER, LEAD, AND ZINC PRODUCTION IN THE ASPEN QUADRANGLE, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-785-D

  • Deposit

    BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 2245

  • Deposit

    MINERALS TODAY, MARCH 1991, P. 29.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE DEVELOPED ON CONTACT FAULT IN BRECCIATED, FE-STAINED LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE. ORE ON CONTACT FAULT DISPLACED IN BLOCK UPWARD RELATIVE TO NW-STRIKING, NE-DIPPING DIXON FAULT ON NORTH AND TO NW-STRIKING, SW-DIPPING SILVER BELL FAULT ON SOUTH. FIRST ORE BODY IS SHOOT IN CONTACT FAULT AND TRENDING NE WITH 25-DEG NORTH PITCH. SECOND ORE BODY IS SO-CALLED "CHIMNEY," A NEAR-VERTICAL SHOOT. OTHER ORE OCCURS AT INTERSECTIONS OF CONTACT FAULT AND VERTICAL FRACTURES HAVING N-S AND E-W TRENDS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1990 Berger, Mary A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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