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Victor project

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. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10311066
Record type Site
Current site name Victor project
Alternate or previous names Ironclad Mine, Silver State/NERCO Minerals mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.15001, 38.74306 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(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

  • On the west side of Ironclad Hill, about 1-1/2 miles ESE of Cripple Creek, in the SE/4 SE/4 sec 18, T 15 S, R 69 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Iron Oxides-Hydrated Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Manganese Ox-Hydrous Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) Intra-ash flow quartz latitic lavas
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • An oxidized breccia pipe contains low-grade gold resources. The breccia pipe material that contains the bulk of the low-grade ore is "fluidized". Breccia is commonly stratified and well-sorted.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Cripple Creek District

Comments on the production information

  • Reported production by 1905 was valued at $225,000. The mine was producing in 1983: 1,450 tons per day grading 0.04 oz/ton Au from an open-pit, vat-leach operation. (Sunshine files) In the early 1990s, mining and heap leaching resumed.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A 1983 report says 2.46 million tons of material grading 0.037oz/ton of gold. (Sunshine files) Subsequently, these reserves have been mined.

Comments on development

  • The old Ironclad mine was developed by a shaft 690 ft. deep and produced a small amount of gold by 1905. Silver State Mining Corp. re-opened the mine as an open pit in March 1982, and sold a 60% interest in the mine to NERCO Minerals Co. in 1984. Following additional changes in ownership and operations, the mine became part of the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co. holdings.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. corporate info., accessed from internet on 4/13/2006

  • Deposit

    Lindgren, W., and Ransome, F. L., 1906, Geology and gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 54, 516 p.

  • Deposit

    Seibel, G. E., 1991, Geology of the Victor mine, Cripple Creek mining district, Colorado: Ft. Collins, CO, Colorado State University, M.S. Thesis, 128 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 19-APR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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