The Sunrise Mine is a copper and silver mine located in Montrose county, Colorado at an elevation of 6,299 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,299 Feet (1,920 Meters)
Commodity: Copper, Silver
Lat, Long: 38.40194, -108.92500
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Sunrise Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sunrise Mine
Secondary: Patented Claim: Sunrise
Secondary: Ms 16001
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: Colorado
County: Montrose
District: La Sal (Paradox Valley) District
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1902
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Canyon Lands
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Paradox Basin Fold And Fault Belt
Type: L
Description: Paradox Anticline, Paradox Valley Graben, Unnamed Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation Of Sulfides To Carbonates And Oxides
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Malachite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Barite
Comments
Comment (Workings): MINE DEVELOPED BY TWO TUNNELS: LOWER TUNNEL DRIVEN ALONG VEIN FOR AT LEAST 300 FT TO CAVED AREA; UPPER TUNNEL LIES 80 FT HIGHER THAN LOWER, DRIVEN ON VEIN FOR AT LEAST 50 FT TO CAVED AREA.
Comment (Deposit): FILLS VEIN AND REPLACES GANGUE (CALCITE), WITH SOME SMALL REPLACEMENT BY CHALCOPYRITE, COVELLITE, MALACHITE, AND CU PITCH.
Comment (Commodity): COPPER PITCH DEFINED AS MIXTURE OF TENORITE, MALACHITE, CHRYSOCOLLA, LIMONITE, AND MN OXIDE
Comment (Location): MINE LIES ON NE SIDE OF PARADOX VALLEY AND BELOW RIM OF CARPENTER RIDGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1975
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSITED ON NE RIM OF PARADOX VALLEY ALONG NORMAL FAULT TRENDING GENERALLY N 35 E, 80 SE AND CUTTING POORLY CEMENTED, FRIABLE VINGATE SANDSTONE. FAULT EXTENDS NE FROM BULGE IN INTRUSIVE CORE OF PARADOX VALLEY SALT ANTICLINE. IN UPPER LEVEL, ORE IS PRIMARILY MASSIVE CHALCOPYRITE WITH LESSER AMOUNTS OF INTERGGROWN CHALCOPYRITE-BORNITE-LUZONITE. ORE FROM LOWER LEVEL COMPOSED OF MASSIVE CHALCOCITE WHICH FILLS VEINS AND OPEN FRACTURES, WITH OR WITHOUT CALCITE-BARITE GANGUE. BOTH ORES OXIDIZED: CHALCOPYRITE ALTERED TO CU PITCH, MALACHITE, AND LIMONITE; CHALCOCITE ALTERED TO MALACHITE AND CU PITCH. MASSIVE CHALCOPYRITE APPEARS TO HAVE REPLACED SANSTONE NEAR FAULT; BRECCIATED AND REPLACED BY LATER CHALCOCITE AND THEN BY CU PITCH. ORE CHARACTERIZED BY NODULAR OR BOTRYOIDAL MASSES OF BORNITE WITH CONCENTRIC BANDS OF CHALCOPYRITE AND COLLOFORM INTERGROWTHS OF CHALCOPYRITE AND LUZONITE. CU PITCH SELECTIVELY REPLACES LUZONITE IN CENTERS OF COLLOFORM MASSES. BLUE AND WHITE MASSIVE CHALCOCITE ORE
References
Reference (Deposit): COFFIN, R.C., 1921, RADIUM, URANIUM, AND VANADIUM DEPOSITS FO SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: CGS BULL. 16, P. 220.
Reference (Deposit): SHOEMAKER, E.M., 19568 GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROC CREEK QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-83.
Reference (Deposit): FISCHER, R.P., 1936, PECULIAR HYDROTHERMAL COPPER-BEARING VEINS OF THE NORTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 6, P. 588-593.
Reference (Deposit): BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 16001
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