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Grand View Mine

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013703
MRDS ID D010134
Record type Site
Current site name Grand View Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.9392, 38.51722 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position 3.1 MILES S 21 E OF SALIDA

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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 049N 009E 11 NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON NE SIDE OF ARKANSAS RIVER; UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Scapolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks
    Rock description Granitic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Migmatitic Gneiss
    Rock description Migmatitic Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.9392, 38.51722
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description Major, Flat Fault

Ore body information

  • Strike NE TO EAST
    Dip MODERATE TO STEEP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1890
Year of first production 1890
Year of last production 1905

Mining district

District name Salida Area/Cleora District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rainbow Mining Co.
    First year 1956

Comments on the production information

  • THIS PROPERTY WAS WORKED AS A COPPER PROSPECT FROM 1890-1905

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • 7 ADITS, ONE SHAFT; ADIT 1 IS 115 FT LONG AND 25 FT ABOVE RAILROAD; ADIT 2 IS 150 FT ABOVE ADITI, DRIVEN N 35 E FOR 170 FT; ADITS 3 AND 4 ARE 50 AND 100 FT LONG AND 30-50 FT ABOVE AND WEST OF ADIT 2; ADIT 5 AT SAME ELEVATION AS ADIT 4, AND CAVED; ADIT 6 IS 16 FT LONG EXPOSING PARTLY OXIDIZED, COPPER-STAINED QUARTZ; ADIT 7 IS 60-FT LONG, HEAVILY TIMBERED; SHAFT IS CAVED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHUNKS CONTAINING AS MUCH AS 60 LBS HIGH GRADE SCHEELITE FOUND ALONG FAULT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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