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Bear Cat Prospect

Occurrence in Larimer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094658
MRDS ID D010587
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Cat Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.6331, 40.72859 (WGS84)
Elevation 2737
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 31 MILES N72W FROM FORT COLLINS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Larimer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinikinik(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Collins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cache La Poudre(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Larimer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 009N;009N 073W;074W 19 W2 (19); E2 (24) Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • PROBABLY NORTH OF SEVENMILE CREEK NEAR EDGE OF OVERLAND EROSIONAL SURFACE. POSITION WITH RESPECT TO GOLD KING AND COLORADO MINE CLAIM GR OUP UNCERTAIN. ELEV AND LAT-LING GIVEN ARE FOR COMMON QUARTER CORNER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result TEST SHIPMENT CONTAINED 0.6 OZ/TON AU, 2.1 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
    Rock description Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
    Rock description Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.6331, 40.72859
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Manhattan District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Robinson Ranch Mines, Inc.
    Home office Livermore
    First year 1964
  • Type Owner
    Owner E. C. And Z. M. Robinson
    Home office Livermore
    First year 1964

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE BULLDOZER CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. N285-286.

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AIRPHOTOS INDICATE PROBABLE QUARTZ MONZONITE DIKES TRENDING N45 T O 60W AND N0 TO 15W ACROSS METAMORPHICS, CDM INF. REPT. CITES MINERALI ZATION IN 2-FT QUARTZ VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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