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Spring Butte Mine

Past Producer in Pitkin county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Gypsum-Anhydrite
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013707
MRDS ID D010141
Record type Site
Current site name Spring Butte Mine
Alternate or previous names Ground Hog-Gypsum Mine, Claims: Ground Hog, Double Decker, Gypsum, Mary Mac 1-4

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.22258, 39.23138 (WGS84)
Elevation 2188
Relative position 11.6 MILES S 3 W FROM CARBONDALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pitkin(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redstone(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carbondale(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 009S 088W 33 S2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • 1200 FT EAST OF CRYSTAL RIVER, 2000 FT NE OF PENNY HOT SPRINGS, 3.7 MILES NE OF REDSTONE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1974)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Gypsum-Anhydrite Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VANDERWILT MENTIONS ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA AND SOME AU AS GENERAL OCCURRENCES IN DISTRICT, BUT CDM REPORT CONFIRMED ONLY PB CARBONATE ORE AT THIS SITE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Middle Tertiary Intrusive Rocks
    Rock description Middle Tertiary Intrusive Rocks
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Eagle Valley Formation
    Rock description Eagle Valley Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.22258, 39.23138
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Central Colorado Trough, Grand Hogback Monocline, Piceance Basin, Elk Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Roaring Fork Syncline, Snowmass Stock, Mt Sopris Intrusive Center, Crystal Embayment

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1926

Mining district

District name Avalanche District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Andrew Nyland
    Home office Carbondale, Co.
    First year 1926
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mary Mclean And D.H. Barnes
    Home office Carbondale, Co.
    First year 1926

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR SHORT TUNNELS AT APPROX 100-FT VERTICAL INTERVALS

Comments on development

  • CDM INDICATES SMALL PRODUCTION MANY YEARS PRIOR TO 1926. DEVELOPMENT IN 1926 AND PRODUCTION OF 3800 LB CARBONATE ORE IN 1926 WAS LAST RECORD OF ACTIVITY. SOME CONCENTRATES PRODUCED AT NEARBY MILL ON CARBONATE MILL SITE CLAIM (MS 5443, STAKED 1889). SITE CHECKED FOR WARTIME STRATEGIC MINERAL (PB) POTENTIAL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO STATE MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 178, 477

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, AND OTHERS, 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LEADVILLE 1X2 QUADRANGLE, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO; USGS MAP I-999

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.

  • Deposit

    MALLORY, W.W., 1971, THE EAGLE VALLEY EVAPORITE, NORTHWEST COLORADO-A REGIONAL SYNTHESIS: USGS BULL. 1311-E.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT LIES ON OR NEAR CONTACT OF PENNSYLVANIAN EVAPORITES AND CLASTICS (EAGLE VALLEY EVAPORITE) WITH OLIGOCENE MT. SOPRIS QUARTZ MONZONITE OR GRANODIORITE INTRUSION, POSSIBLY A SATELLITE STOCK FROM SNOWMASS PLUTON TO SE. MALLORY (1971) INDICATES SOME BEDDED GYPSUM AT SITE, BUT SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY OF HOST ROCK CANNOT BE DEFINITELY DETERMINED; COULD INCLUDE SILTSTONE, MUDSTONE, SHALE, AND LIMESTONE.
Deposit SPRING BUTTE MINE AND M&J CLAIM ARE ONLY PROPERTIES DESCRIBED FOR AVALANCHE DISTRICT. EXACT LOCATION OF M&J CLAIM UNKNOWN. OTHER UNIDENTIFIED MINE IN SW SW SEC 26; CLAIMS IN NW SEC 27, NE SEC 28, AND NE SEC 34, ALL IN T95, R88W. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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