Colorado · Fremont County
Prospect
Texas Creek Prospect
Fremont County, Colorado, United States
Copper Silver
Land & claims · BLM · live
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Surface manager + active mining claims at this point, live from BLM. The "open to location" notes are a general 1872-Mining-Law guide, not BLM output — decision-support only; verify with BLM MLRS and on the ground before staking or entry.
Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Silver
Commodity typeMetallic
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
WorkingsUnderground
Ore controlFaults, Fault Intersections; Shear Zones
Materials
Ore mineralsBornite, Chalcopyrite
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockSchist,Gneiss · Migmatitic Gneiss
Associated rockQuartz Monzonite,Diorite,Granite · Granodiorite
StructureNorthern Wet Mountains, Canon City Embayment, Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field, Texas Creek Fault/Shear Zone; Ne-Trending Fault Intersects Near Workings
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
AlterationAltered Biotite Gneiss; Kaolinization
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
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References
COKER, R. J., 1982, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ARKANSAS CANYON PLANNING UNIT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE FORMER GRAPE CREEK WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS AND THE MCINTYRE HILLS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA: US BLM MINERAL REPORT, P. 59-60TAYLOR, R. B., SCOTT, G. R., WOBUS, R. A. AND EPIS, R. C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COTOPAXI 15-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-900, 1: 62,500.
Identification
Deposit ID10087775
MRDS IDD009606
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.45473, -105.60808
Base: USGS MRDS (public domain, frozen 2011). Community notes © their authors, CC-BY. Land data live from BLM.