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Argentine Tunnel

Past Producer in Clear Creek 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. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10214132
MAS/MILS ID 0080190146
Record type Site
Current site name Argentine Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Argentine, Argentine vein
Included sites Marshall

Comments on the site identification

  • Part of the Colorado Central, Kirtley, and Argentine Group. the Kirtley Group of veins includes the Kirtley, Stranger, O.K., Tilden, Argentine, Creole, and Gates veins (PP-63, p. 265).

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.70279, 39.68389 (WGS84)
Elevation 2987
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position On west side of Clear Creek, south of Georgetown Reservoir, on east facing flank of Leavenworth Mtn, about one mi. south of Georgetown.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clear Creek(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Georgetown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Clear(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Clear Creek

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.70279, 39.68389
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • The Argentine vein may be an extension of the Kirtley vein (PP-63, p. 267).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Silver Plume - Georgetown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • "The Argentine vein was fairly productive, but the ore did not carry such high values" (PP-63, p. 271)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF: MINE MAP REPO.# 405318 & OTHERS

  • Deposit

    Spurr, J.E., and Garrey, G.H., 1908, Economic Geology of the Georgetown Quadrangle (together with the Empire District) Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 63, 422 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit The argentine vein averages less than 100 ounces of silver, but carries a high percentage of lead. Considerable zinc in associated with the lead and about 0.1 ounce of gold is also present. Cupriferous pytrie is abundant along cracks. (PP-63, p. 270).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 06-JAN-12 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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