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Lost Canyon Placer Deposits

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018282
MRDS ID DC05149
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Canyon Placer Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.33811, 39.03443 (WGS84)
Elevation 3505
Relative position 4.0 MILES S80W OF TOWN OF GRANITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(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
6th Principal 012S 080W 03,04,05 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SPECIFIC LOCATIONS (LATITUDE, LONGITUDE) GIVEN FOR CENTER OF SECTION 4. THE PLACERS ARE FOUND FROM THE HEAD OF THE CREEK DOWN THROUGH LOST CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Deep Weathering, Some Glaciation

Analytical data

Result GOLD OF TWO KINDS: 920 FINE WITH SOME 840 FINE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Unconsolidated Gravel Deposits
    Rock description Unconsolidated Gravel Deposits
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.33811, 39.03443
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sawatch Range, Sawatch Range Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1860
Year of first production 1860
Year of last production 1959

Mining district

District name Lost Canyon (Granite) Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. A. Green
    First year 1974

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION PROBABLY GT $200,000 (1974), AVERAGING $3 PER CUBIC YARD, OFTEN WITH STREAKS TO $10 PER CUBIC YARD (1959)

Comments on development

  • EXTENSIVE PLACERING WAS CONDUCTED. SOME DRIFTING AND OTHER UNDERGROUND WORK DONE IN LATE 1800'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARKER, B.H., JR., 1974, GOLD PLACERS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY, V. 69, NO. 4, P. 77-80

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, MOENCH, R.H., REED, J.C., JR., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LEADVILLE 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-999, 1:250,000

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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