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Aberdeen Quarry

Past Producer in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014382
MRDS ID D011128
Record type Site
Current site name Aberdeen Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.98673, 38.45028 (WGS84)
Elevation 2432
Relative position 7 MILES S 28 W FROM GUNNISON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gunnison(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iris NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saguache(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gunnison(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Gunnison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 048N 001W 05 SE OF SE OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON NORTH SIDE OF BEAVER CREEK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue

Analytical data

Result HUNTER'S (1914) PHYSICAL ANALYSIS: COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH, 14340 LB/SQ IN.
Result MODULUS OF RUPTURE, 2645 LB/SQ IN.
Result PROPER SPECIFIC GRAVITY, 2.71
Result APPARENT SPECIFIC GRAVITY, 2.70
Result RATIO OF ABSORPTION, 0.17 %
Result POROSITY, 0.46 %
Result WEIGHT PER CUBIC FOOT, 169 LB/CU FT. ESTIMATED MODAL COMPOSITION: 36 % QUARTZ, 51 % FELDSPAR (OLIGOCLASE, MICROCLINE, ORTHOCLASE), 12 % BIOTITE, 1 % ACCESSORY MINERALS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granite Of South Beaver Creek;Diabase Dikes
    Rock description Granite Of South Beaver Creek;Diabase Dikes
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Metamorphic Rocks--Amphibolite;Metamorphic Rocks--Quartz-Biotite Schist, Gneiss, And Migmatite
    Rock description Metamorphic Rocks--Amphibolite;Metamorphic Rocks--Quartz-Biotite Schist, Gneiss, And Migmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.98673, 38.45028
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field, West Elk Centers
Type of structure Local
Structure description Gunnison Gold Belt, Unnamed Syncline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1889
Year of last production 1912

Mining district

District name Gunnison Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred G. Zugelder, Gunnison, Co.; Peter F. Bossie And Gettis And Seerie, Denver, Co.
    First year 1912

Comments on the production information

  • OF THIS TOTAL ESTIMATED CUMULATIVE AMOUNT OF GRANITE QUARRIED, ABOUT 280,000 CU FT REPRESENTS STONE FOR THE MAIN STRUCTURE OF THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING. REMAINING 10,000 CU FT REPRESENTS SMALLER AMOUNTS QUARRIED LATER FOR MONUMENTAL STONE, STATE CAPITOL STEPS, AND STATE MUSEUM BUILDING.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • HILLSIDE QUARRY

Comments on development

  • QUARRY SITE ORIGINALLY PATENTED IN 1890 AS PLACER CLAIMS COVERING 120 ACRES. "THE QUARRY WAS FIRST WORKED IN JULY, 1889, WHEN GETTIS & SEERIE BEGAN TAKING OUT STONE FOR THE STATE CAPITOL AT DENVER. FROM THIS TIME UNTIL 1892 THEY WORKED AN AVERAGE OF 60 MEN AND TOOK OUT ABOUT 280,000 CUBIC FEET OF STONE. THIS WAS BY FAR THE LARGEST AND LONGEST OPERATION THAT THE QUARRY HAS KNOWN. THE GRANITE WAS LOADED AT THE QUARRY, THERE BEING AT THAT TIME A SPUR UP SOUTH BEAVER CREEK. THE STONE HAD TO BE TRANSFERRED, HOWEVER, FROM THE NARROW-GAGE TO THE STANDARD-GAGE CARS AT SALIDA. SINCE THIS PERIOD OF ACTIVITY THE QUARRY HAS BEEN WORKED ONLY SPORADICALLY. FROM 1892 UNTIL 1895 A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONUMENTAL STOCK WAS QUARRIED. DURING 1905 STONE WAS QUARRIED FOR THE STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL. IN 1908 MR. (FRED) ZUGELDER TOOK OUT 3,500 CUBIC FEET, AND IN 1911-12 MR. (PETER F.) BOSSIE QUARRIED ABOUT 3,000 CUBIC FEET FOR THE STATE MUSEUM BUILDING IN DENVER. THE LAST WORK WAS DONE IN JULY, 1912, AND AND
  • QUARRY IS NOW IDLE. IN ALL NEARLY 290,000 CUBIC FEET OF STONE HAS BEEN QUARRIED."(HUNTER, 1914)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE IRIS NW QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1134.

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG MESA QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1153.

  • Deposit

    ARGALL, G.O., JR., 1949, DIMENSION STONE, IN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES QUART., V. 44, NO. 2, P. 135-137.

  • Deposit

    HUNTER, J.F., 1914, THE ABERDEEN GRANITE QUARRY NEAR GUNNISON: USGS BULL. 540, P. 359-362.

  • Production

    HUNTER (1914)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HEDLUND AND OLSON'S (1974) GEOLOGIC MAP SHOWS QUARRY TO LIE IN MAIN BODY OF GRANITE OF SOUTH BEAVER CREEK JUST NORTH OF SEQUENCE OF SCHIST AND AMPHIBOLITE THAT BORDER NORTH EDGE OF DUBOIS GREENSTONE BELT. GRANITE BODY HAS INTRUDED METAMORPHICS GENERALLY ALONG SCHISTOSITY, WITH FOLIATION OF LARGE MASSES OF ENCLOSED SCHIST AND AMPHIBOLITE TRENDING GENERALLY NW ON FAR SW LIMB OF UNNMAED NW-TRENDING SYNCLINE. EAST-WEST-TRENDING CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN DIABASE DIKES CUTS GRANITE, SCHIST, AND AMPHIBOLITE JUST NORTH OF QUARRY. HUNTER (1914) DESCRIBES ROCK AS "GRAY GRANITE" APPROACHING QUARTZ DIORITE IN COMPOSITION, MEDIUM-GRAINED, EVEN-TEXTURED, ALLOTRIOMORPHIC, HARD, COMPACT, AND EASILY WORKED. GRANITE REPORTEDLY HAD PROMINENT RIFT (JOINTING?) TRENDING N 60 W, AND ALONG WHICH IT SLABBED EASILY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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