Description
J.V. Farwell (Claimant)
Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver, Copper
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlMineralization Localized In Quartz Veins Filling Post-Collapse Radial And Concentric Faults And Fractures Beyond North Edge Of Main Collapse Structure.
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Silver
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockSchist
Associated rockRhyolite,Quartz Latite,Latite
StructureSawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith, Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
AlterationFe Oxides, Cu Carbonates
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1879
Discovery year1879
Identification
Deposit ID10013874
MRDS IDD010412
Alternate namesClaims: Independence, MS 1421, Gatton, MS 1422, Dolly Varden, MS 1423, Mammoth, MS 1424
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.10888, -106.61256
References
CRUSON, M.G., 1973, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GRIZZLY PEAK CAULDRON COMPLEX, SAWATCH RANGE, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES PH.D. THESIS T-1538ROHLFING, D.P., 193?, REPORT ON THE INDEPENDENCE GOLD PROPERTY, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE PLANNING COMM. UNPUB. REPT., 7 P.HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P.LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND ELLIS, C.E., 1981, MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-D. & &LUDINGTON, STEVE, AND YEOMAN, R.A., 1980, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE HUNTER-FRYINGPAN WILDERNESS AREA AND THE PORPHYRY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-1236-A.COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.