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Challenger Mine

Past Producer in Larimer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013964
MRDS ID D010541
Record type Site
Current site name Challenger Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims: Heline No. 1, Challenger
Related records 10239240

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.42281, 40.64637 (WGS84)
Elevation 2521
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 18.7 MILES N77W FROM FORT COLLINS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Larimer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Narrows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Collins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cache La Poudre(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Larimer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008N 072W 23,24 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG UPPER SKIN GULCH EAST OF POVERTY FLATS 3 MILES SW OF STOVE P RAIRIE LANDING. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR COMMON QUARTER CORNER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TWETO (1960) CITIES MO (POWELLITE) GENERALLY OCCURRING WITH CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AREA W DEPOSITS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1942 ORE SHIPMENT CONTAINED 0.57% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Aplite
    Rock description Pegmatite;Aplite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Amphibolite;Migmatitic Biotite Schist
    Rock description Amphibolite;Migmatitic Biotite Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.42281, 40.64637
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Poudre River Shear Zone, Skin Gulch Shear Zone, Poverty Flats Synf Orm, South Fork Antiform, Clark Synform

Ore body information

  • Length 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1932
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Stove Prairie Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Sackett, T. H. And Others

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • NINE SHALLOW OPEN CUTS ABOUT 6 FT DEEP; TWO SHAFTS, 10 FT AND 20 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • LOCATED IN 1932 AS HELINE NO. 1 CLAIM; RELOCATED IN 1951 AS CHALL ENGER CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COBB, H.S., 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLORADO: COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BD., P. 19.

  • Deposit

    ABBOTT, J.T., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG NARROWS QUADRANGLE, LAR IMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1323.

  • Deposit

    BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISO N, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: IC-7748, P. 18.

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORA DO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, NO. 7, P. 1428.

  • Production

    BELSER, 1956, P. 18

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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