Cleora District

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000370
MRDS ID D010241
Record type District
Current site name Cleora District
Alternate or previous names Stockton (Gertrude) Mine, Cleora No. 2 Prospect, Grand View Mine, Hub Tunnels, Mute Lode, North Star Claim, Saddle Claim, Uncle Andy Prospect, Tiger Lode Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.96449, 38.5133 (WGS84)
Relative position SPECIFIC LOCATION INFORMATION IS FOR THE STOCKTON MINE, THE LARGEST IN THE DISTRICT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salida East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) SCAPOLITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.96449, 38.5133

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description NW-TRENDING FAULTS; STOCKTON AND GERTRUDE VEINS
Type of structure Regional
Structure description SOUTHERN MOSQUITO RANGE, NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE, ARKANSAS VALLEY GRABEN

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Year of first production 1870

Mining district

District name CLEORA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Colorado resources

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