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Liberty Hill Mine

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Manganese, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013773
MRDS ID D010248
Record type Site
Current site name Liberty Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Walter Higham's Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.01032, 38.64167 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position 7.5 MILES N 10 W OF SALIDA POST OFFICE, Within 1.5 Mile

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nathrop(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(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

Pike and San Isabel 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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 051N 009E 29 E2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 10 MILES NW OF SALIDA; FOR LOCATIONS GIVEN HERE A GROUP OF MINES IN THE GENERAL AREA WAS ARBITRARILY CHOSEN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Siderite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 33.83% MN, 6.57% FE, 7.61% SIO2, 0.65% S, 0.037%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.01032, 38.64167
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type of structure Local
Structure description On East Limb Of Syncline; N-Trending Faults; E-W-Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • Dip 20-40 E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Folds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Turret Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Walter Higham And Sons
    Home office Salida, Co.
    First year 1919

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION AT LEAST IN 1916, PROBABLY OTHER YEARS AS WELL

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ABOUT 1000 TONS OF ORE VISIBLE IN 1919

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 15.24M
    Overall length 91.44M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED TUNNEL (50 FT LONG), SURFACE CUTS AND PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MUILENBURG, G.A., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF COLORADO: CGS BULLETIN 15, P. 28-31

  • Deposit

    TWETO, O.L., STEVEN, T.A., HAIL, W.J., JR. AND MOENCH, R.H., 1976, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MONTROSE 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-761, 1:250,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE PINCHES AND SWELLS WITH BEDDING, SHOWING SOME REPLACEMENT OF LIMESTONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-83 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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