The Spaulding Mine is a tungsten mine located in Larimer county, Colorado at an elevation of 6,050 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,050 Feet (1,844 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 40.71222, -105.31306
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Spaulding Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Spaulding Mine
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Graphite
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Colorado
County: Larimer
District: Stove Prairie Area
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith
Type: L
Description: Poudre River Shear Zone, Skin Gulch Shear Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Powellite
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Graphite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON EAST SIDE OF HEWLETT GULCH 1.8 MILES NW OF POUDRE PARK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980
Comment (Commodity): TWETO (1960) CITES MO (POWELLITE) GENERALLY OCCURRING WITH CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AREA W DEPOSITS
Comment (Workings): TWO ADITS, 50 AND 60 FT LONG
Comment (Reference): Reference to Abbott, 1978, is general geologic background info. This mine is on the next quadrangle to the east, the Poudre Park quad., mapped by Braddock and others, 1988, USGS GQ-1520.
References
Reference (Geology): Braddock and others, 1988, Geologic map of Poudre Park quadrangle, Larimer County, CO: USGS Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1620, scale 1:24,000.
Reference (Deposit): WYANT, D.G., 1949, SPAULDING-WOODHAMS SCHEELITE PROSPECTS, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: AEC TEM-9A, 4 P.
Reference (Deposit): ABBOTT, J.T., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG NARROWS QUADRANGLE, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1323.
Reference (Deposit): TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, NO. 7, P. 1406-1428.
Reference (Deposit): BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM IC-7748, P. 16.
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