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Champion Shaft

Past Producer in Hinsdale county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Gemstone, Zinc, 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. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014741
MRDS ID D011652
Record type Site
Current site name Champion Shaft
Alternate or previous names Patented Claim: Champion, Ms 2318

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.48035, 37.94612 (WGS84)
Elevation 3292
Relative position 10.8 MILES S 59 W FROM LAKE CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hinsdale(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redcloud Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silverton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Durango(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gunnison(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Hinsdale

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 043N 006W 35,36 NE OF NE (35); NW OF NW (36) Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary
Gemstone Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Rhodochrosite Gangue

Analytical data

Result CDM REPORT GIVES VEIN ASSAYS OF 3 OZ/TON AG, 17% PB, 13% ZN, 4% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granite Of Cataract Canyon;Ash-Flow Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
    Rock description Granite Of Cataract Canyon;Ash-Flow Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Megabreccia Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff
    Rock description Megabreccia Member Of Sunshine Peak Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.48035, 37.94612
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression
Type of structure Local
Structure description San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Silverton Caldera, Eureka Graben

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • East-West-Trending Fault Cutting Megabreccia Within Lake City Caldera

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Year of first production 1877
Year of last production 1974

Mining district

District name Park (Whitecross, Burrows Park, Adams) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Reserve Mining Corp.
    Home office Colorado Springs, Co.
    First year 1976
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hubert L. Greenback
    Home office Valley Center, Ks.
    First year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • PARTIAL PRODUCTION RECORD. MINE PREVIOUSLY WORKED IN 1923, BUT FIGURES FOR 1923 AND PRIOR YEARS UNAVAILABLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • 160- TO 170-FT-DEEP SHAFT, WITH 65-FT EAST DRIFT AND 30- TO 40-FT WEST DRIFT. CDM REPORTS DESCRIBE WORKINGS AS ONE SHAFT, UPPER 25 FT VERTICAL, THENCE INCLINED FOR 200 FT AT 60 DEG, WITH LEVELS AT 100 FT AND 200 FT. AT LEAST ONE AND AS MANY AS THREE TUNNELS DRIVEN GENERALLY NORTHWARD, EXTENT UNKOWN.

Comments on development

  • MINE PROBABLY WORKED IN EARLY 1870S, PRODUCTION MADE IN 1877. BY 1883, IT WAS ONE OF BEST DEVELOPED MINES IN DISTRICT. NEW TUNNEL DRIVEN IN 1885, ENCOUNTERING PB ORE HIGHER THAN CU ORE FOUND IN LOWER WORKINGS. IN 1890S, SOME ORE SHIPPED TO MILL AT SHERMAN. SHAFT, WITH DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS COMPLETED BY 1901, YEAR IN WHICH MINE CLOSED DUE TO MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS. MINE REOPENED IN 1916 BUT CLOSED AGAIN BY 1923. 25 SHORT TONS OF DEVELOPMENT ORE PRODUCED IN 1974. SOME SPECIMEN RHODOCHROSITE PRODUCED FOR MINERAL DEALERS IN 1976. MINE REMAINED CLOSED AND IN LITIGATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, W.H., 1926, THE MINERAL ZONES OF THE WHITE CROSS DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORING DEPOSITS IN HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: MINES MAG., V. 15, NO. 11, P. 5-15.

  • Deposit

    LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.

  • Deposit

    WOOLSEY, L.H., 1907, LAKE FORK EXTENSION OF THE SILVERTON MINING AREA, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 315, P. 26-30.

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.

  • Deposit

    KRASOWSKI, D.J., 1976, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF BURROWS PARK, HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE UNIV. M.SC. THESIS, 111 P.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, R.W., AND KENNEDY, M.B., 1983, CHAMPION MINE, IN MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO): NEW YORK, VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD CO., P. 185-186.

  • Production

    COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870S
Deposit VEIN REPORTEDLY OCCURRED IN APPROX EAST-WEST-TRENDING VEIN CUTTING SUNSHINE PEAK MEGABRECCIA. PRIMARILY CU ORE FOUND IN LOWER WORKINGS, BUT GALENA AND CARBONATES WERE FOUND IN UPPER WORKINGS. RHODOCHROSITE GANGUE DEVELOPED TO POINT THAT SPECIMEN MATERIAL WAS RECOVERED IN LATER YEARS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1984 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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