The Champaign Mine is a silver mine located in Park county, Colorado at an elevation of 11,850 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 11,850 Feet (3,612 Meters)
Commodity: Silver
Lat, Long: 39.30472, -106.15944
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Champaign Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Champaign Mine
Secondary: Champaign and Coney claims
Secondary: Champaign and Coney Mines
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Uranium
Location
State: Colorado
County: Park
District: Alma 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
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1935
Material type: Produced more silver than Sweet Home but less than Orphan Boy.
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Polymetallic vein
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1876
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: Plutonic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mesoproterozoic
Age Old: Mesoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pitchblende
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): INFORMATION FROM PRR-2314, DATED 1951. RADIOACTIVITY: 4XBG A RADIOACTIVITY OCCURS IN A TERTIARY AGE VEIN.
Comment (Location): Champaign is in section 31, Coney is more than 4 mi. to the NE in Sec. 15. These two mines should not be recorded together. Champaign claim is Survey # 646. Coney claim is # 257. (See claim map in CGS Bull. 3, pl. 1 and appendix B.)
Comment (Environment): Hydrologic unit code calculated 3/94 using GIS overlay analysis with 1:1,000,000-scale (est) Federal owenership boundaries.
Comment (Orebody): D002316 reported pitchblende as ore.
Comment (Deposit): Radon gas in mine (from DC00246)
Comment (Production): $250,000, 80 oz Ag, 2 oz Au/ton, 0.013% U3O8 (from DC00246).
References
Reference (Deposit): Singewald, Q., 1935, Relations of hydrothermal alteration of porphyries to ore deposition in the Alma District, Colorado: Economic Geology, v. 30, no. 5, p. 537.
Reference (Deposit): Patton, H.B., Hoskin, A.J., and Butler, G.M., 1912, Geology and ore deposits of the Ama District, Park County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 3, pl. 1, Appendix B, p. 248, 264.
Reference (Deposit): BLM Connecting Sheets
Reference (Deposit): Mineral Property File
Reference (Deposit): DMEA Records
Reference (Deposit): Mine Map repo #403506 #403510 #403514
Reference (Deposit): Singewald, Q., and Butler, B.S., 1932, Suggestions for prospecting in the Alma District, Colorado: Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 4; fig. 6, p. 104.
Reference (Deposit): MAS Oct. 1976 file
Reference (Deposit): Singewald, Q. D., and Butler, B.S., 1941, Ore deposits in the vicinity of the London Fault of Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 911, pls. 1, 3, 4.
Reference (Deposit): Cons. Div. Comp. Date. 9, 64.
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