| Deposit ID | 10311060 |
|---|---|
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Courthouse vein system |
| Alternate or previous names | Dividend/Eagle Plume adit, Hawkins adit, Goodman claims, Coronado Group, McMillan Group |
| Geographic coordinates: | -105.48363, 37.58641 (WGS84) |
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Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Huerfano(county)
Colorado(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Blanca Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Blanca Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Trinidad(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Huerfano(hydrologic unit)
Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)
Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)
Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Colorado | Huerfano |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Tungsten Critical | Secondary |
| Tellurium Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Gold | Ore |
| Hessite | Ore |
| Jalpaite | Ore |
| Melonite | Ore |
| Pearceite | Ore |
| Polybasite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Sylvanite | Ore |
| Tetrahedrite | Ore |
| Wolframite | Ore |
| Ankerite | Gangue |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Chlorite | Gangue |
| Epidote | Gangue |
| Orthoclase | Gangue |
| Magnetite | Gangue |
| Muscovite | Gangue |
| Pyrrhotite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Sericite | Gangue |
| Model code | 82 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 22 |
| Deposit model name | Epithermal veins |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Tonalite | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Associated | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro | ||
| Rock type qualifier | dikes | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Associated | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite | ||
| Rock type qualifier | dikes | ||
| |||
| (1) | -105.48363, 37.58641 |
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| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Blanca District |
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| Type | In-situ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name | Courthouse vein system | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Estimate year | 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Inferred | 3600000mt ore | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thompson, J.R., 1983, Mineral investigation of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 65-83, 190 p.
Scott, D. C., 1986, Gold, silver, and tungsten resources of the Courthouse vein system, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa and Huerfano counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 52-86, 28 p.
Ellis, C. E., 1988, Mineralogy and configuration of the Courthouse vein system, Alamosa, Costilla, and Huerfano counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 32-88, 36 p.
Scott, 1986.
Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 07-APR-2006 | Beach, Richard A. | Colorado Geological Survey |
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