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Overton-Steele Hollow Iron Deposits

Past Producer in Pueblo county in Colorado, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013419
MRDS ID D009701
Record type Site
Current site name Overton-Steele Hollow Iron Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.57999, 38.35279 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 3 TO 9 MILES NORTH OF PUEBLO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pueblo(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Northeast Pueblo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fountain(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Pueblo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 019S;019S 064W;065W 18,19,20,29,30,31,32;01,02,11,12,13 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT EXTENDS FROM LOWER WEST SLOPE OF BACULITE MESA AND OVERTON TOWNSITE NNW TO STEELE HOLLOW AREA. LAT-LONG GIVEN IS CENTER SEC. 32 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Siderite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Alteration And Oxidation Of Pyrite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Pierre Shale (Rusty Zone)
    Rock description Pierre Shale (Rusty Zone)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.57999, 38.35279
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Denver Basin, Canon City Embayment, Apishapa Uplift,
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pueblo Anticline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Pueblo Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • CONCRETIONS WERE HAND PICKED FROM SURFACE AND OUTCROPS AND MIXED WITH OTHER ORES FOR STEEL MANUFACTURE IN PUEBLO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARRER, C. M., AND TESCH, W. J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM IC 7918, P. 59

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, G. K., 1897, DESCRIPTION OF THE PUEBLO QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 36

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G. R., 1969, GENERAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PART OF PUEBLO, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1262, P. 77-80.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit (SEE LAST PAGE)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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