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Wire Patch Mine

Past Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021683
MRDS ID DE00892
Record type Site
Current site name Wire Patch Mine
Alternate or previous names Elephant Tunnel and ore body, Mill Tunnel
Related records 10119410

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.96838, 39.48443 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boreas Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bailey(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blue(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 Summit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
006S 077W 35 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • On the SW slope of Farncomb Hill, at 10,550 feet elevation, about 4 miles east of Breckenridge, sec. 35, T 6S, R 77 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Rhodochrosite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) sericitized porpphyry

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Pierre Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry
    Rock unit name quartz monzonite porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.96838, 39.48443
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description intrusion breccia

Comments on the geologic information

  • Ore in the Elephant ore body consisted of sulfides in sericitized porphyry and shale breccia.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Breckenridge District

Comments on the production information

  • The Elephant ore body produced about $140,000 (about 7,000 oz. of gold at $20/oz.) from about 1882 to 1889.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 19-JAN-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

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