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Sage Claim

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Manganese
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013771
MRDS ID D010242
Record type Site
Current site name Sage Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.93059, 38.56611 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Relative position 4.1 MILES N 55 E OF SALIDA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salida East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(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)

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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 050N 009E 24 SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.25 MILE EAST OF THE CRATER IN SMALL SADDLE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 14-FT SAMPLE ASSAYED 12% MN, 0.67% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
    Rock unit name Badger Creek Tuff;Antero Formation
    Rock description Badger Creek Tuff;Antero Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Lake Sediments
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
    Rock unit name Antero Formation (Water Laid Ash With Air-Fall And Ash-Flow Tuff And Lahar)
    Rock description Antero Formation (Water Laid Ash With Air-Fall And Ash-Flow Tuff And Lahar)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.93059, 38.56611
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Breccia Zone

Ore body information

  • Length 121.92M
    Width 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Salida Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE CUT, SMALL PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 3-7

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25, TEXT

  • Deposit

    SHARPS, T.I., 1965, TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN, V. 8. NO. 5, 16 P.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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