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Unnamed Iron Ore Mine

Past Producer in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal
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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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014566
MRDS ID D011392
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Iron Ore Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.0859, 38.28611 (WGS84)
Elevation 2585
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 19.5 MILES S 26 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

Powderhorn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Montrose(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)

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 Gunnison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 046N 002W 34 SE OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SINGEWALD (1913) GIVES LOCATION OF MOST EXTENSIVE WORKINGS AS IN A DRAW ONE MILE NE OF CEBOLLA HOT SPRINGS. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR PROSPECTS ON MAGNETITE-PEROVSKITE STRINGER ON NW SIDE OF STONE GULCH 0.8 MILE NE OF POWDERHORN AND 0.25 MILE NE OF WORKINGS DESCRIBED AS TITAN (AABERITE) MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite
    Rock unit name Pyroxenite
    Rock description Pyroxenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.0859, 38.28611
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field
Type of structure Local
Structure description Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Cimarron Fault, Powderhorn Stock

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1885

Mining district

District name White Earth (Powderhorn) District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner John J. Crooke
    Home office Lake City, Co.
    First year 1880

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTED FIGURE IS MAXIMUM PRODUCTION PROBABLY REALIZED IN THE 1880S.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT WAS PROSPECTED AND WORKED TO SMALL EXTENT PROBABLY IN 1880S BY MR. CROOKE OF LAKE CITY, WHO SHIPPED THE ORE TO THE LAKE CITY SMELTER. SMELTER REFUSED FURTHER SHIPMENTS AFTER TITANIFEROUS CHARACTER OF ORE WAS DISCOVERED. HARRER AND TESCH (1959) CITE TOTAL PRODUCTION OF LESS THAN 4000 ST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE POWDERHORN QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1178.

  • Deposit

    SINGEWALD, J.T., JR., 1913, CEBOLLA CREEK, IN THE TITANIFEROUS IRON ORES IN THE UNITED STATES, THEIR COMPOSITION AND ECONOMIC VALUE: USBM BULL. 64, P. 135-141.

  • Deposit

    HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM IC-7918, P. 33.

  • Production

    HARRER AND TESCH, 1959, P. 33

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-84 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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