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Unnamed Copper Prospect

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013190
MRDS ID D009342
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Copper Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.52502, 38.60445 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Relative position 10.5 MILES N 42 W OF PARKDALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hall Gulch(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 017S 073W 02 SW OF SW OF SE OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON NE SLOPE OF SMALL HILL ABOUT ONE MILE ESE OF TAYLOR SODA SPRING ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite Of Silver Plume Age
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite Of Silver Plume Age
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.52502, 38.60445
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thirty Nine Mile Volcanic Field, Currant Creek Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Large North-Trending Fault, Currant Creek Fault Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CHAPIN, C.E., 1965, GEOLOGIC AND PETROLOGIC FEATURES OF THE THIRTY NINE MILE VOLCANIC FIELD, CENTRAL COLORADO: GOLDEN, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES D.SC. THESIS, 176 P.

  • Deposit

    EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A. AND SCOTT, G.R., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND PARK COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1195, 1:62,500.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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