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Pride of Aspen 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. Materials 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. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013384
MRDS ID D009647
Record type Site
Current site name Pride of Aspen Mine
Alternate or previous names Claim: Pride of Aspen
Related records 10118520

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.82868, 39.19082 (WGS84)
Elevation 2423
Relative position ON SW CORPORATION LINE OF 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 12 SW OF SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • AT NORTH BASE OF WEST ASPEN MTN. ELEV AND LAT-LONG FROM BRYANT (1972) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1980)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Barite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Aplite Porphyry;Hornblende Quartz Diorite
    Rock description Aplite Porphyry;Hornblende Quartz Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Belden Formation;Maroon Formation
    Rock description Belden Formation;Maroon Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.82868, 39.19082
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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 Pride Fault, Mary B. Fault, Aspen Mountain Syncline, Castle Creek Fault Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • High-Angle Normal Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1892
Discoverer D. R. C. Brown (Claimant)
Year of last production 1919

Mining district

District name Aspen (Roaring Fork) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner B. C. Leasing Co.
    Home office Glenwood Springs, Co.
    First year 1964
  • Type Owner
    Owner Lois Ringquist
    Home office Aspen, Co.
    First year 1964

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION RECORDS BEFORE 1919 UNAVAILABLE. COLORADO DIV. MINES REPORTS PRODUCTION IN 1919 OF 60 TONS CRUDE ORE AND 900 TONS MILLING ORE, NO PRODUCTION IN 1927-28, PROSPECTING IN 1963, IDLE IN 1964

Comments on the workings information

  • 400-FT-DEEP SHAFT WITH TWO LEVELS RUNNING WESTWARD AT 200-AND 400-FT DEPTHS. TWO TUNNELS OF UNKNOWN LENGTH DRIVEN GENERALLY SOUTHWARD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J. E., 1898, GEOLOGY OF THE ASPEN DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS MON. 31, P. 165, PL. 41

  • 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 7364

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit (SEE LAST PAGE)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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