| Deposit ID | 10167860 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0080910007 |
| Record type | District |
| Current site name | Red Mountain Deposits |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -107.69624, 37.9119 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 3292 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
| Relative position | Unknown accuracy and location. Red Mountain District covers a large area. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Ouray(county)
Colorado(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Ironton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Silverton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Durango(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Uncompahgre(hydrologic unit)
Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)
Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)
Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Colorado | Ouray |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 042 N | 008 W | 14 | Colorado |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Secondary |
| Tin Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Argentite | Unknown |
| Barite | Unknown |
| Bornite | Unknown |
| Bournonite | Unknown |
| Calcite | Unknown |
| Chalcocite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Colusite | Unknown |
| Covellite | Unknown |
| Enargite | Unknown |
| Galena | Unknown |
| Kaolin | Unknown |
| Polybasite | Unknown |
| Proustite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Rhodonite | Unknown |
| Sphalerite | Unknown |
| Stromeyerite | Unknown |
| Tennantite | Unknown |
| Tetrahedrite | Unknown |
| Main Entrance (1) | -107.69624, 37.9119 |
|---|
| Strike | N25E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 90E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thickness | 250M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 6400M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 1600M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 518HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 0M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1883 |
| Year of first production | 1884 |
| Plant type | Leach |
| District name | Red Mountain District |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Patented |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Cornucopia Resources Ltd. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Sial Exploration Inc. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Red Mountain Resources |
| Year | 1988 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0080910007 |
BASTIN, E.S.. 1923, SILVER ENRICHMENT IN THE SAN JUAN Mountains, COLOrado: USGS BULL. 735-D, P. 98-108.
BURBANK, W.S., 1947, Red Mountain District, Ouray County, in VANDERWILT, J.W., ed., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADOSTATE OF COLORADO MINeral Resources Board, p. 428-431.
BURBANK, W.S., and Luedke, R.G., 1968, Geology and ore deposits of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado, in Ore deposits of the united States, 1933-1967 (Graton-Sales v. 1): American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), p. 715-733.
CROSS, WHITMAN, 1935, A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE SAN JUAN REGION OF SOUTHWESTER COLORADO: USGS BULL. 843, 121 P.
KING, WM. H., and Allsman, P.T., 1950, RECONNAIssaNCE OF METAL MINING IN the San Juan region, Ouray, SAN JUAN AND MINERAL COUNTIES, Colorado: USBM IC-7554. 109 p.
NELSON, RAYmond, 1939, COLUSITE, ITS OCCURRENCE, PARAGENESIS, AND GENETIC SIGNIFICANCE: AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, v. 24, P. 369-376.
RANSOME, FREDERICK L., 1901, A REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULl. 182, 265 P.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | A generalized record, non-specific. Probably should be deleted. There are much better, more detailed records for actual mines in this area. ABW changed this from a site record to a district record, recoded all of the commodities as primary (from Tertiary), and put the existing references into something closer to USGS format. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 29-NOV-90 | Gosling | U.S. Bureau of Mines | |
| Updater | 15-JUN-11 | Wilson, Anna B | U.S. Geological Survey |
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