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Copper King Mine

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Zinc, 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013829
MRDS ID D010351
Record type Site
Current site name Copper King Mine
Alternate or previous names Turret Deposit Heinrich, E.W., 1981
Related records 10141438

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.9917, 38.64028 (WGS84)
Elevation 2609
Relative position 7.3 MILES NORTH 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

Cameron Mountain(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

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 29,32 SE (29); NE (32) Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.25 MILE SOUTH OF TURRET, BETWEEN TURRET AND INDEPENDENCE MINE, ALONG CAT GULCH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Magnetite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Apatite Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Cordierite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rutile Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Gahnite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Granodiorite
    Rock description Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Rock unit name Migmatitic Gneiss
    Rock description Migmatitic Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.9917, 38.64028
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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 Pleasant Valley Sycline

Ore body information

  • Length 213.36M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Host Rock, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Turret District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 167.64M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 20 TRENCHES, ALL SHALLOW; SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, P. 100-104

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: THE MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST, V. 13, NO. 3, P. 89-100.

  • Deposit

    BOARDMAN, S.J., 1971, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 131 P.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1908, NOTES ON COPPER DEPOSITS IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS BULLETIN 340, P. 157-174. & &

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND 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.

  • Deposit

    BHUTTA, M.A., 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE SALIDA AREA, CHAFFEE AND FREMONT COUNTIES, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES PHD THESIS, 173 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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