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Cresson Mine (historic underground mine)

Past Producer in Teller 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. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10192214
MAS/MILS ID 0081190018
Record type Site
Current site name Cresson Mine (historic underground mine)
Alternate or previous names see also MAS ID# 0081190261, new surface Cresson Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.1439, 38.72668 (WGS84)
Elevation 3057
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position Within 200 Meters

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teller(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cripple Creek South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Teller

Comments on the location information

  • Near the head of Eclipse Gulch between Raven Hill and Battle Mtn., about 2 miles SE of Cripple Creek, in the SW/4 SW/4 sec. 20, T 15 S, R 69 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 84
USGS model code 22b
Deposit model name Alkaline Au-Te (Au-Ag-Te veins)
Mark3 model number 80

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.1439, 38.72668
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Lying wholly within the fragmental and intrusive rocks of the Cripple Creek volcanic complex, the mine is characterized by a pipe-like basaltic breccia mass known as the Cresson blowout. Ore shoots occur as irregular masses and veins adjacent to and within the basaltic breccia. One notable stope contained a vug, discovered in 1914, that contained ore extremely rich in calaverite and yielded 60,000 oz. of gold.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cripple Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Snare Cinstruction Co.

Comments on the ownership information

  • ORIGINAL OWNER: CRESSON CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING & MILLING CO. (1935)
  • FOR OWNERSHIP AS OF 1997 SEE FILE 0081190261

Comments on the production information

  • One of the most productive mines in the district, it yielded $35.3 million from 2.1 million tons of ore from 1903 to 1933. Other reports credit it with production worth $51 million to 1961, and with 12% of the total district production. (Sunshine files) Thus, the estimated total production is about 2 to 2.4 million oz. gold

Comments on development

  • Developed on 18 levels by a shaft 2400 ft. deep (in 1933), and later deepened to 2750 ft. (Sunshine files)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO #403869, #403868 & OTHERS.

  • Deposit

    Loughlin, G. F., and Koschmann, A. H., 1935, Geology and ore deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 6, p. 217-435.

  • 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.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE RESERVES FOR THE CRESSON DEPOSIT HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED WITH THE CRESSON MINE/CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT (SEQ# 0081190261). THESE RESERVES ARE BEING MINED AS ONE OREBODY OR PROPERTY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-OCT-97 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 20-APR-06 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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