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Feldspar Mine

Producer in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Lead, Feldspar
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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. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108124
MRDS ID DC01571
Record type Site
Current site name Feldspar Mine
Alternate or previous names Feldspar Lode

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -105.25196, 38.23751 (WGS84)
Elevation 2803
Relative position OAK CR., 3 MI. N. OF ILSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Tyndall(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 21S;021S;021S;021S 71W;070W;070W;070W 01;07;07;07 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Feldspar Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Undivided Gneiss
    Rock description Undivided Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -105.25196, 38.23751
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name Ilse Fault
Structure description Wet Mountains

Ore body information

  • Strike N13W
    Dip 73E
    Length 304.8M
    Width 2.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ilse Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 7 FT. VEIN, 1000 FT. OUTCROP, N13W 73E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1916, 1944

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARGALL, 1949, COLO. SCH. MINES QUART., V. 44, NO. 2, P. 34

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEG X 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 11,69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 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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