The Old Bennett Ore Body is a mine located in Saguache county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,960 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: 8,960 Feet (2,731 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.16583, -105.78833
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Old Bennett Ore Body MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Old Bennett Ore Body
Secondary: Moffat Iron Mine No. 1
Secondary: Major Creek Limonite Mine
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: Colorado
County: Saguache
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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: C. F. Jones And Tom Benton
Home Office: Villa Grove, Co.
Years: 1959 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Year: 1956
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: Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift
Type: L
Description: Cotton Lake Anticline, Gibson Peak Syncline
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 0.1 TO 1.0 % AS.
Analytical Data: 0.01 TO 0.1 % PB, TI, MN2 C0, NI
Analytical Data: USBM CHARACTER SAMPLE OF ORE CONTAINED 53.7 % FE, 0.17 % P, 1.53 % S. 8.6 % SI02, 0,1 % MN. SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS SHOWED 0.001 TO 0.01 % GA, ZR, CR
Materials
Ore: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON MAJOR CR 2.3 MILES SE OF VALLEY VIEW HOT SPRINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SMALL SURFACE CUTS, TWO CAVED UPPER ADITS, 70-FT-LONG LOWER ADIT DRIVEN N62W.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: LIMESTONE N58W, 56NE, YELLOW TO BROWN LIMONITE, PYRITE BELOW WATER TABLE (NEARLY PURE)
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1908, P. 112
Reference (Deposit): USBM MIN. EXAM. FILE
Reference (Deposit): HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM 1C 7918.
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,69
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