Jennie Lind Mine

The Jennie Lind Mine is a silver and gold mine located in La Plata county, Colorado at an elevation of 11,280 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Jennie Lind Mine
Secondary: Patented Claim: Jennie Lind
Secondary: Ms 17561

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Tellurium
Tertiary: Vanadium

Location

State: Colorado
County: La Plata
District: California (La Plata) District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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.
Administrative Organization: San Juan N. F.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Steward Brothers
Home Office: Durango, Co.
Years: 1969 -

Owner Name: Lewis Mountain Mining Co.
Home Office: Durango, Co.
Years: 1969 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1892
Year Last Production: 1967
Discovery Year: 1887
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Navajo Section

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform

Type: L
Description: La Plata Dome

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Eocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Roscoelite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Deposit): COUNTRY ROCKS CONSIST OF SOUTH-AND SW-DIPPING CUTLER FM RED BEDS INTRUDED BY DIORITE-MONZONITE PORPHYRY SILLS GRADING INTO DIORITE. VEIN TREND VARIES FROM N 82 W EAST OF MINE TO N 60 W NEAR MINE, DIPPING STEEPLY BOTH NE AND SW. JENNIE LIND VEIN PROBABLY INTERSECTS EAGLE PASS VEIN. LOWER ADIT EXPOSES 2- TO 7-FT-WIDE SILICIFIED FRACTURE ZONE WITH DISSEMINATED PYRITE AND GRANULAR QUARTZ. DUMP ORE SHOWED INTERGROWN QUARTZ AND BARITE WITH GREENISH TELLURIDE-BEARING(?) QUART WITH GALENA, SPHALERITE, AND PYRITE. ORE SHOOT MAY HAVE BEEN CONTROLLED BY INTERSECTION OF NW-TRENDING JENNIE LIND VEIN WITH NE-TRENDING SHEAR ZONES NEAR FACE OF TUNNEL.

Comment (Production): PARTIAL PRODUCTION RECORD. FIGURES UNAVAILABLE FOR YEARS PRIOR TO 1901. NO PRODUCTION REPORTED FOR 1902-1903, 1905-1908, 1910-1911, 1915-1921, 1923-1961, 1963, 1965-1966, AND AFTER 1967. FIGURES FOR 1962, 1964, AND 1967 FROM COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.

Comment (Location): (LAND STATUS AND ADMINISTRATIVE AREA LOCATIONS CALCULATED USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS FOR SAN JUAN N. F.). AT HEAD OF WALLS GULCH JUST EAST OF EAGLE PASS, 3.1 MILES NE OF LA PLATA TOWNSITE (UNSURVEYED SECTION). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1974

Comment (Workings): MINE DEVELOPED BY THREE MAIN ADITS, SEVERAL SHORT ADITS, AND OPEN CUTS. UPPER TWO TUNNELS DRIVEN AT LEAST 200 FT BUT ARE INACCESSIBLE. LOWER TUNNEL DRIVEN VARIABLY N 60 TO 80 W FOR 500 FT TO FACE, WITH SHORT BRANCH TUNNELS AT 380, 430, AND 482 FT FROM PORTAL; 30-FT STOPE AT 450 TO 480 FT FROM PORTAL.

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: LATE 1880S

References

Reference (Deposit): ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-76, 130-131.

Reference (Deposit): COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.

Reference (Deposit): BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 17561

Reference (Production): ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 130 (AS COMPILED FROM USGS, USBM, AND CDM RECORDS); COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.

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