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Black Beauty Deposit

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10017153
MRDS ID DC02997
Record type Site
Current site name Black Beauty Deposit
Alternate or previous names Crater Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.96031, 38.56028 (WGS84)
Elevation 2560
Relative position 2.5 MILES N42E OF SALIDA POST OFFICE

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 50N 09E 27 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • BETWEEN DEAD HORSE GULCH AND COTTONWOOD GULCH ALONG JEEP TRAIL NE OF SALIDA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Rhodonite Ore
Siderite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE REPORTEDLY 18% MNO2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Metagabbro
    Rock description Metagabbro

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.96031, 38.56028
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pleasant Valley Syncline, Nw-Trending Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY MAY BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE VENTURE LODE MINE, ABOUT 4 MILES NE ; GEOL.DESC: MANGANESE SILICATE IN CHLORITIC SCHIST OR PHYLLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Salida Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • ORE IS 18 PERCENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS CAMERON MT. TOPO QUAD, 1956, 15 MIN

  • Deposit

    MICROFILM FILES, DOCUMENTS 2592 & 2593, MINERAL DEPOSITS BRANCH

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINLETS IN LIMESTONE?

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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