The Ling Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Summit county, Colorado.
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Ling Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ling Mine
Secondary: North Star
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Colorado
County: Summit
District: Upper Blue River Area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gneiss
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Paleoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Huebnerite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Geology): Ling vein strikes NW and consists of a quartz vein, averages 5 feet wide with streaks of high-grade ore, that was worked on a small scale and produced small amounts of "good gold ore".
Comment (Location): Mine is high on the north slope of North Star Mountain, in SW/4 sec. 3, T 8 S, R 78 W, about 8 miles SSW of Breckenridge. Workings extend through the mountain to the south side (in Park County).
Comment (Production): More than $100,000 in gold produced from 1884 to 1934 (about 5,000 oz. at $20/oz.).
Comment (Production): 3600 lbs (1.8 t) of high-grade, sorted ore shipped to a smelter in the 1950s from "heavily enriched portion of vein" was valued at $250 per ton. (Sunshine files)
References
Reference (Deposit): SINGEWALD, 1947, LODE DEPOSITS OF THE UPPER BLUE RIVER AREA, SUMMIT CO.: MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLO.
Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
Reference (Deposit): MINE MAP REPO #403510
Reference (Deposit): SINGEWALD, Q.D., 1951, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UPPER BLUE RIVER AREA, SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 970, 74 P.
Reference (Deposit): VOEGELI AND KING, 1969, USGS-WSP 1535-N.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., 1991, ASCII DATABASE FOR PRINCIPAL LODE MINES AND MINERALIZED AREAS IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 91-0027A AND B, 22 P. AND ONE DISKETTE.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., IN PRESS, MINERALIZED AREAS AND PRINCIPAL LODE MINES IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-2163, SCALE A:50,000.
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