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Ronk Creek Placer Occurrence

Occurrence in Elbert county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10017929
MRDS ID DC04515
Record type Site
Current site name Ronk Creek Placer Occurrence
Alternate or previous names Gold Run Creek, Gold Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.61723, 39.36667 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position ONE MILE N55W FROM ELIZABETH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elbert(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elizabeth(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Castle Rock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle South Platte-Cherry Creek(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Elbert

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008S 065W 12 E2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • PLACERING HAS BEEN REPORTED ALONG GOLD CREEK, BUT NO SPECIFIC LOCATION COULD BE FOUND. LOCATION CITED ABOVE IS APPROXIMATED FROM DESBOROUGH AND OTHERS' (1970) MAP OF SEDIMENT SAMPLE LOCALITIES. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1974)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AU-AG AMALGAM PROBALY IS CONTAMINATION FROM OLD PLACER OPERATIONS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result GOLD-SILVER ANALYSES (DESBOROUGH AND OTHERS, 1970, LOCALITY 4-GOLD CREEK), EACH SET OF VALUES IS AU GRAIN SIZE (MM), WT. % AG IN GRAIN CENTER, RANGE OF WT. % AG IN GRAIN RIM: 0.320, LT 0.1, LT 0.1
Result 0.270, 2.8, 0 TO 0.4
Result 0.130, 0.4, 0 TO 0.6
Result 0.480, LT 0.1, LT 0.1
Result 0.380, 0.9, 0.2 TO 2.6
Result 0.235, LT 0.1, 0 TO 0.2
Result 0.160, 0.1, 0 TO 1.2
Result 0.245, 0.5, 0.1 TO 0.5
Result 0.147, LT 0.1, 0 TO 0.3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Piney Creek Alluvium;Post-Piney Creek Alluvium
    Rock description Piney Creek Alluvium;Post-Piney Creek Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.61723, 39.36667
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Denver Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Denver Basin

Ore body information

  • General form LENS OR POD

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Valley Fill

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED AS FOSSIL PLACERS IN CASTLE ROCK CONGLOMERATE, SUB SEQUENTLY ERODED FROM THAT AND RECONCENTRATED IN HOLOCENE ALLUVIUM DOWNSTREAM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Elizabeth Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • ALTHOUGH THIS WAS JUST SAMPLE SITE, PLACERING WAS DONE ELSEWHERE ALONG CREEK, BUT LOCATIONS ARE UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DESBOROUGH, G.A., RAYMOND, W.H., AND SOULE, COURTNEY, 1970, PLACER GOLD OF UNIQUE FINENESS IN DOUGLAS AND ELBERT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 700-D, P. D134-D139.

  • Deposit

    PARKER, B.H., JR., 1974, GOLD PLACERS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES QUART., V. 69, NO. 3. P. 45-57.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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