The Raspberry Creek area is a lead, gold, and silver mine located in Saguache county, Colorado.
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Raspberry Creek area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Raspberry Creek area
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Colorado
County: Saguache
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: Surface-Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Structure: high angle faulting along western Sangre de Cristo Range
Description: Sange de Cristo fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: silicification, iron oxide
Rocks
Name: Gneiss
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Proterozoic
Name: Granitoid
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Proterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Commodity): Small quartz veins in Proterozoic granite and gneiss contain galena, chalcopyrite, gold, and silver. These have been prospected with with several adits and prspect pits, but no production is recorded. The workings are now caved in.
Comment (Geology): Mineralization appears to be associated with the Sange de Cristo fault zone and other extensional faults of the Rio Grande rift. Mineralized veins have been found only in crystalline basement rocks, not in nearby Paleozoic sedimentary rocks.
Comment (Location): Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, approximately 10 miles southeast of Poncha Pass.
Comment (Production): Production was small, if any, and it was not recorded.
References
Reference (Deposit): Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thompson, J.R., 1983, Mineral investigation of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado, U.S. Bureau of Mines MLA 65-83, 190 p.
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