Spaulding Mine

Past Producer in Larimer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Graphite, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013968
MRDS ID D010545
MAS/MILS ID 0080690121
Record type Site
Current site name Spaulding Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.31365, 40.7122 (WGS84)
Elevation 1844
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 15.3 MILES N55W FROM FORT COLLINS, 200 meters

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Larimer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poudre Park(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Collins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cache La Poudre(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Larimer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 009N 071W 26 W2 OF SW SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON EAST SIDE OF HEWLETT GULCH 1.8 MILES NW OF POUDRE PARK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Graphite Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TWETO (1960) CITES MO (POWELLITE) GENERALLY OCCURRING WITH CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AREA W DEPOSITS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Graphite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sherman Granite
    Rock description Sherman Granite
    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
    Rock unit name Metamorphic Rocks--Biotite Gneiss, Schist, And Migmatite
    Rock description Metamorphic Rocks--Biotite Gneiss, Schist, And Migmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.31365, 40.7122

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Poudre River Shear Zone, Skin Gulch Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Stove Prairie Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS, 50 AND 60 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Geology

    Braddock and others, 1988, Geologic map of Poudre Park quadrangle, Larimer County, CO: USGS Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1620, scale 1:24,000.

  • Deposit

    BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM IC-7748, P. 16.

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, NO. 7, P. 1406-1428.

  • Deposit

    ABBOTT, J.T., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG NARROWS QUADRANGLE, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1323.

  • Deposit

    WYANT, D.G., 1949, SPAULDING-WOODHAMS SCHEELITE PROSPECTS, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: AEC TEM-9A, 4 P.

Comments on the references

  • Reference to Abbott, 1978, is general geologic background info. This mine is on the next quadrangle to the east, the Poudre Park quad., mapped by Braddock and others, 1988, USGS GQ-1520.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Reporter 21-SEP-78 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines =0080690121 (newMRDS 10142591). Merged and deleted by A.Wilson (29-jan-2010).
Editor 29-JAN-10 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey Merged and deleted 10142591 (MAS 0080690121).

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

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