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Old Bennett Ore Body

Prospect in Saguache county in Colorado, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10016268
MRDS ID DC00797
Record type Site
Current site name Old Bennett Ore Body
Alternate or previous names Moffat Iron Mine No. 1, Major Creek Limonite Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.78891, 38.16584 (WGS84)
Elevation 2731
Relative position 10.4 MILES S57E FROM VILLA GROVE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Saguache(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Valley View Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Luis(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rio Grande National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Saguache

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 45N 11E 08 SW OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON MAJOR CR 2.3 MILES SE OF VALLEY VIEW HOT SPRINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result USBM CHARACTER SAMPLE OF ORE CONTAINED 53.7 % FE, 0.17 % P, 1.53 % S. 8.6 % SI02, 0,1 % MN. SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS SHOWED 0.001 TO 0.01 % GA, ZR, CR
Result 0.01 TO 0.1 % PB, TI, MN2 C0, NI
Result 0.1 TO 1.0 % AS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Leadville Limestone;Chaffee Group
    Rock description Leadville Limestone;Chaffee Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.78891, 38.16584
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Cotton Lake Anticline, Gibson Peak Syncline

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: LIMESTONE N58W, 56NE, YELLOW TO BROWN LIMONITE, PYRITE BELOW WATER TABLE (NEARLY PURE)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1956

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner C. F. Jones And Tom Benton
    Home office Villa Grove, Co.
    First year 1959

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SMALL SURFACE CUTS, TWO CAVED UPPER ADITS, 70-FT-LONG LOWER ADIT DRIVEN N62W.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1908, P. 112

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. EXAM. FILE

  • Deposit

    HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM 1C 7918.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1972 Unknown Unknown
Updater 01-FEB-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 10-JUN-2005 Keller, John W. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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