The Steele Canyon Mining, Milling, and Investment Co. Claims is a lead, copper, silver, and gold mine located in Saguache county, Colorado at an elevation of 10,820 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 10,820 Feet (3,298 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 38.24472, -105.82611
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Steele Canyon Mining, Milling, and Investment Co. Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Steele Canyon Mining, Milling, and Investment Co. Claims
Secondary: Independence
Secondary: Princess
Secondary: Victor
Secondary: Copper King
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Copper
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Colorado
County: Saguache
District: Orient-Steele Canyon area
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Steele Canyon Mining, Milling, And Investment Co.
Years: 1905 -
Production
Year: 1984
Time Period: to 1984
Material type: polymetallic ore from Copper King, Victor, Independence, Princess, and Abe Lincoln
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Unknown
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1900
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Sawatch Arch, Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift
Type: L
Description: Unnamed Normal Faults; Unnamed Anticline; Sangre De Cristo Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Mississippian
Age Old: Ordovician
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Barite
Comments
Comment (Location): IN STEEL CANYON 4 MILES DUE NORTH OF VALLEY VIEW HOT SPRINGS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976
Comment (Deposit): TYPE OF DEPOSIT UNKNOWN, BUT MINERALIZATION APPEARS RELATED TO NORMAL AND REVERSE FAULTS BRANCHING FROM SANGRE DE CRISTO FAULT (RANGE BOUNDARY FAULT)
Comment (Workings): PRINCIPAL WORKINGS ARE 220-FT SHAFT ON INDEPENDENCE CLAIM; 380-FT TUNNEL ON VICTOR CLAIM; 120-FT TUNNEL AND 125-FT WINZE ON PRINCESS CLAIM. ADDITIONAL WORKINGS INCLUDE 155 FT OF SHAFT AND TUNNEL ON ABE LINCOLN; 100-FT TUNNEL AND 50-FT WINZE ON CLARENCE; 855 FT OF TUNNEL, SHAFT, AND STOPES ON COPPER KING; 21-FT TUNNEL ON COPPER KING NO. 2; 90-FT SHAFT ON NEW YORK
Comment (Deposit): CLAIMS GROUP ALSO INCLUDES ABE LINCOLN, BILLY, CLARENCE, COPPER KING AND COPPER KING NO.2, ELSIE, NEW YORK, SHERMAN, SNOW SHOE, THREE FREINDS, TOLEDO, EAGLE PLACERS 1-4, QUAKER CITY MILL SITE, PETER MILL SITE, STEELE CANYON MILL SITE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): COLORADO DIV. MINES MINE MANAGERS REPTS., 1902, 1904, 1905
Reference (Deposit): BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 14177
Reference (Deposit): TAYLOR, R.B., AND OTHERS, 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE HOWARD QUADRANGLE, CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS I-892
Reference (Deposit): Hannigan, B.J., 1984, USBM MLA 24-84
Reference (Geology): Lindsey and others, 1984, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1716-A.
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