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Copper King Nickel Mine

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodities Nickel, Cobalt, Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108244
MRDS ID DC03568
Record type Site
Current site name Copper King Nickel Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper King
Related records 10117466

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.42031, 40.05527 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position NW 1/4. 3/4 MI SW OF GOLD HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Estes Park(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 01N 72W 14 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Adits 3/4 mile SW of Gold Hill, in N/2 sec. 14, T1N, R72W. Cobalt Gold Mining Co. was owner (operator?) in 1930s and 1940s.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Niccolite Ore
Pentlandite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Arsenopyrite Unknown
Bravoite Unknown
Cobaltite Unknown
Millerite Unknown
Polydymite Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown
Violarite Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 271
USGS model code Unassigned
Deposit model name Stratabound Precambrian sulfide, Colorado and Wyoming

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Amphibole Schist
    Rock unit name Idaho Springs Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.42031, 40.05527
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description ore replaces beds in amphibolite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District

Comments on the production information

  • About 3,000 tons of nickel ore was mined in 1942.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • About 25,000 tons of ore that contains between 2% and 3% nickel, plus a similar quantity of 0.5% nickel (1955).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GODDARD AND LOVERING, 1942, USGS BULL. 931-0, PL. 59, PG 349-362.

  • Deposit

    MINERAL COMMODITY FILES-DOCKET 6754

  • Deposit

    LOVERING AND GODDARD, 1950, USGS PP 223, PG. 70, PL. 8

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62

  • Deposit

    BELL, JAMES E, 1941, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE NICKEL PROPERTY OF THE COBALT GOLD MINING CO. US BUR MINES STRAT. MINERAL EVALUATION SECTION REPT NO 5001 (UNPUBLISHED) ON FILE AT USBM IFOC

  • Deposit

    OWN:COBALT GOLD MINING CO

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-73 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-74 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 15-DEC-05 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Hite, Alan G. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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