Old Bennett Ore Body

The Old Bennett Ore Body is a mine located in Saguache county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,960 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Old Bennett Ore Body
Secondary: Moffat Iron Mine No. 1
Secondary: Major Creek Limonite Mine

Commodity

Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Manganese

Location

State: Colorado
County: Saguache

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.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: C. F. Jones And Tom Benton
Home Office: Villa Grove, Co.
Years: 1959 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Year: 1956
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift

Type: L
Description: Cotton Lake Anticline, Gibson Peak Syncline

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: 0.1 TO 1.0 % AS.
Analytical Data: 0.01 TO 0.1 % PB, TI, MN2 C0, NI
Analytical Data: USBM CHARACTER SAMPLE OF ORE CONTAINED 53.7 % FE, 0.17 % P, 1.53 % S. 8.6 % SI02, 0,1 % MN. SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS SHOWED 0.001 TO 0.01 % GA, ZR, CR

Materials

Ore: Limonite

Comments

Comment (Location): ON MAJOR CR 2.3 MILES SE OF VALLEY VIEW HOT SPRINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SMALL SURFACE CUTS, TWO CAVED UPPER ADITS, 70-FT-LONG LOWER ADIT DRIVEN N62W.

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: LIMESTONE N58W, 56NE, YELLOW TO BROWN LIMONITE, PYRITE BELOW WATER TABLE (NEARLY PURE)

References

Reference (Deposit): USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1908, P. 112

Reference (Deposit): USBM MIN. EXAM. FILE

Reference (Deposit): HARRER, C.M., AND TESCH, W.J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM 1C 7918.

Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,69

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