Clover Gulch Placers

The Clover Gulch Placers is a gold mine located in Mesa county, Colorado at an elevation of 6,099 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Clover Gulch Placers
Secondary: Clover Gulch and Kimball Creek Placers

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Uranium

Location

State: Colorado
County: Mesa
District: Battlement Mesa Area

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

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1925
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

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Orebody

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Structure

Type: R
Description: Piceance Creek Basin, Gunnison Uplift

Type: L
Description: Piceance Creek Basin, Montrose Syncline

Alterations

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Rocks

Name: Sand and Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: REPORTED ASSAYS OF $138 TO $150/TON OR (AT $20.65/OZ) 6.68 TO 7.26 OZ/TON

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Location): PLACER CLAIMS ORIGINALLY STAKED ALONG CLOVER GULCH AND KIMBALL CREEK. LAT-LONG GIVEN IS CS 22. DEPOSIT MAY EXTEND INTO SECS. 02, 03, 10, 11, 14, AND 15 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MONTROSE 1:250000

Comment (Deposit): CLAIMS WERE MOST LIKELY LOCATED IN ALLUVIUM ALONG CLOVER GULCH IN SECS. 22, 27, AND 28. MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS ARTICLE STATES THAT CLAIMS EXTENDED FOR 14 MILES BUT CREEK VALLEY IS ONLY 5 MILES LONG, TERMINATING ON LOWER BENCH OF BATTLEMENT MESA. VALLEY ALLUVIUM MAY EXTEND MOST OF THIS DISTANCE, BUT YEEND MAPPED IT ONLY AS FAR NORTH AS SW/4 SEC. 22. THOSE ON KIMBALL CREEK COULD BE LOCATED ON ALLUVIUM IN SECS. 11 AND 26, BUT DEPOSIT MAY INCLUDE PROMINENT TERRACE GRAVELS ON EAST SIDE OF CREEK ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH. PLACER GOLD MOST LIKELY WAS DERIVED FROM WEATHERING AND EROSION OF FOSSIL PLACERS WITHIN PALEOCENE-EOCENE BEDROCK FORMATIONS THAT FORM BATTLEMENT MESA--WASATCH FM OR UINTA FM. THESE OLDER SEDIMENTS COULD HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM MINERALIZED AREAS IN THE PRESENT SAWATCH RANGE AND WEST ELK MOUNTAINS.

Comment (Development): "A RUSH TO THE RECENT GOLD DISCOVERIES NEAR COLLBRAN HAS STARTED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. SCORES OF MEN ARE COMING IN FROM DE BEQUE ON EVERY STAGE AND THE MINING CAMP IN CLOVER GULCH IS TAKING ON THE APPEARANCE OF A TENTED CITY. OVER 150 CLAIMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN STAKED, AND THE CLAIMS EXTEND FOR 14 MILES UP AND DOWN CLOVER GULCH, WHILE PROSPECTORS ARE NOW STAKING OTHER CLAIMS ON KIMBALL CREEK. THE ADVANCE PROSPECTORS FROM THE EAGLE DISTRICT REPORT THAT THEY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY SCORE OF OTHER PROSPECTORS IF EARLY REPORTS OF DISCOVERIES ARE BORNE OUT. ADDITIONAL ASSAYS OF ORE HAVE BEEN MADE AND SHOW FROM $138 TO $150 PER TON, WITH INDICATIONS OF A STREAK OF URANIUM. MERCHANTS OF COLLBRAN HAVE ORDERED LARGE QUANTITIES OF TENTS AND OTHER CAMP SUPPLIES." (MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS, 1913)

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: EARLY 1900 S

References

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