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Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims

Past Producer in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Production statistics
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087740
MRDS ID D008910
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims
Alternate or previous names High Kicker Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -105.21751, 38.18362 (WGS84)
Elevation 2742
Relative position 14 MILES N74E FROM WESTCLIFFE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hardscrabble Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 021S 070W 33 N2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR LEAD HILL, 2.5 MILES SE OF TERRIBLE MINE, NEAR HEAD OF EAST FORK OF OAK CREEK AND ON DIVIDE BETWEEN IT AND PARKER GULCH, A TRIBUTARY TO HARDSCRABBLE CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Silver Ore
Cerussite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Extensive Oxidation And Alteration

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 30
USGS model code 11d
Deposit model name Thorium-rare-earth veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Undivided Gneiss
    Rock description Undivided Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -105.21751, 38.18362
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wet Mountains
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ilse Fault

Ore body information

  • Strike N15-30W
    Dip S35W
    Length 457.2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zones, Ilse Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1887
Discoverer Alexander Hall
Year of first production 1887
Year of last production 1893

Mining district

District name Oak Creek (Ilse) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Williams, Sylvester G.
    Home office Denver, CO
    First year 1915

Production statistics

  • Year 1893
    Period 1887-1893
    Material PB ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Yield 80 Tons Concentrate, 60% Pb
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Lead Lead 60wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECTS, PITS, DRIFTS, TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • PATENTED ABOUT 1898

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37.

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    HUNTER, J.F., 1915

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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