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Wire Patch Placer

Past Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091488
MRDS ID DC05185
Record type Site
Current site name Wire Patch Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.96921, 39.48416 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR MIDDLE OF SEC. 35

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
6th Principal 06S 77W 35 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Gulch on the SW slope of the saddle between Humbug and Farncomb Hills, about 4 miles east of Breckenridge, W/2 sec. 35, T 6S, R 77 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.96921, 39.48416
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • One of the gulch, or colluvial, placer deposits around Farncomb Hill, it was small but rich in gold.

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 Wire Patch, and other placers in gulches that drain Farncomb Hill, are credited with $5,000,000 (about 250,000 oz. of gold at $20/oz.) output in gold.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • The valley of French Gulch adjacent to the Wire Patch placer has not been worked, but its potential for placer deposits was considered to be low. (Sunshine files #221)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Parker, B. H., Jr., 1961, The geology of the gold placers of Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, Ph.D. dissertation, 578 p.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,65

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

  • Deposit

    Lovering, T. S., and Goddard, E. N., 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Front Range, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 223, 319 p.

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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