The Copper King Nickel Mine is a nickel and cobalt mine located in Boulder county, Colorado.
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Copper King Nickel Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper King Nickel Mine
Secondary: Copper King
Commodity
Primary: Nickel
Primary: Cobalt
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Colorado
County: Boulder
District: Gold Hill District
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: Stratabound Precambrian sulfide, Colorado and Wyoming
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: ore replaces beds in amphibolite
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Amphibole Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Paleoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Pentlandite
Ore: Niccolite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Pyrite
Unknown: Bravoite
Unknown: Cobaltite
Unknown: Millerite
Unknown: Polydymite
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Violarite
Unknown: Arsenopyrite
Comments
Comment (Location): Adits 3/4 mile SW of Gold Hill, in N/2 sec. 14, T1N, R72W. Cobalt Gold Mining Co. was owner (operator?) in 1930s and 1940s.
Comment (Production): About 3,000 tons of nickel ore was mined in 1942.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): About 25,000 tons of ore that contains between 2% and 3% nickel, plus a similar quantity of 0.5% nickel (1955).
References
Reference (Deposit): GODDARD AND LOVERING, 1942, USGS BULL. 931-0, PL. 59, PG 349-362.
Reference (Deposit): OWN:COBALT GOLD MINING CO
Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
Reference (Deposit): BELL, JAMES E, 1941, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE NICKEL PROPERTY OF THE COBALT GOLD MINING CO. US BUR MINES STRAT. MINERAL EVALUATION SECTION REPT NO 5001 (UNPUBLISHED) ON FILE AT USBM IFOC
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62
Reference (Deposit): MINERAL COMMODITY FILES-DOCKET 6754
Reference (Deposit): LOVERING AND GODDARD, 1950, USGS PP 223, PG. 70, PL. 8
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