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Cottonwood Creek Magnetite Deposit

Occurrence in Chaffee 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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013775
MRDS ID D010251
Record type Site
Current site name Cottonwood Creek Magnetite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.97615, 38.53833 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 0.9 MILES N 68 E OF SALIDA POST OFFICE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salida East(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)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 050N 009E 33 CENTER OF E2 OF SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MILE EAST OF TENDERFOOT HILL, 1 MILE NE OF SALIDA; AT BOTTOM OF STEEP-WALLED PART OF COTTON WOOD CREEK CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Meta Volcanic And Metasedimentary Rocks
    Rock description Meta Volcanic And Metasedimentary Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.97615, 38.53833
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Southern Mosquito Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M
    Length 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; Fault?

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Salida Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARRER, C.M. AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7918, P. 18.

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POOR EXPOSURES WITH MAGNETITE DISSEMINATED IN GNEISS LAYER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Collins Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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