Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims

The Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims is a lead, silver, zinc, and uranium mine located in Custer county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,996 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims
Secondary: High Kicker Mine

Commodity

Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Fluorine-Fluorite

Location

State: Colorado
County: Custer
District: Oak Creek (Ilse) 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

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Williams, Sylvester G.
Home Office: Denver, CO
Years: 1915 -

Production

Year: 1893
Time Period: 1887-1893
Material type: PB ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Yield 80 Tons Concentrate, 60% Pb

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1887
Year Last Production: 1893
Discovery Year: 1887
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

Model Name: Thorium-rare-earth veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: Wet Mountains

Type: L
Description: Ilse Fault

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Extensive Oxidation And Alteration

Rocks

Name: Pyroxenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Cambrian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Silver
Ore: Cerussite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Workings): PROSPECTS, PITS, DRIFTS, TUNNELS

Comment (Location): NEAR LEAD HILL, 2.5 MILES SE OF TERRIBLE MINE, NEAR HEAD OF EAST FORK OF OAK CREEK AND ON DIVIDE BETWEEN IT AND PARKER GULCH, A TRIBUTARY TO HARDSCRABBLE CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Comment (Development): PATENTED ABOUT 1898

References

Reference (Deposit): HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37.

Reference (Deposit): SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.

Reference (Production): HUNTER, J.F., 1915

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