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Josephine Mine

Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Cobalt
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018281
MRDS ID DC05147
Record type Site
Current site name Josephine Mine
Related records 10238985

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.19838, 38.96111 (WGS84)
Elevation 2585
Relative position 2.3 MILES S28E OF PRINCETON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harvard Lakes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 12S 79W 35 NW OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESS BY DIRT ROAD 0.5 MILE LONG WHICH CONNECTS SURFACE PLANT WITH US HWY 24 AT RIVERSIDE; POSSIBLY SECTION 23 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks, Undivided
    Rock description Granitic Rocks, Undivided
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.19838, 38.96111
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures, Dike

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DARK COLORED DIKE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Princeton Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • $68,000 GOLD (NOT VERIFIED)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MINERAL EXAM. FILE

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 472.

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, STEVEN, T.A., HAIL, W.J., JR., MOENCH, R.H., 1976, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MONTROSE 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-761, 1:250,000

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64

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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Authoritative Colorado resources

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