Paris Mine

The Paris Mine is a gold mine located in Park county, Colorado at an elevation of 11,798 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Paris Mine
Secondary: Alma Gold Corp. veins, claims, or workings of the Paris area: Adrian, Great West, Helvetia, Little F

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Silver

Location

State: Colorado
County: Park
District: Alma 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

Type: Patented

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Chiwawa Mines
Company ID: 502918
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Washington
Info Year: 1990

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: calcareous beds are favorable host rock

Rocks

Name: Orthoquartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Cambrian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Dolomite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Oxidized gold-bearing sulfide vein and replacement deposits in quartzite.

Comment (Location): The mine is on the south ridge of Mount Bross and north side of Buckskin Creek, about 2 miles NW of Alma, in the NW/4 sec 3, T 9 S, R 78 W.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): A 1936 report estimates 233,000 tons of ore, comprising 33,000 tons of shipping ore that averages 1.67 oz/ton gold and 18.8 oz/ton silver, plus 200,000 tons of milling ore that averages 0.583 oz/ton gold and 7.66 oz/ton silver. (Sunshine files)

Comment (Ownership): OWNER:CHIWAWA MINES, EAST 28 RIVERSIDE AVENUE, SPOKANE, WN. LARRY JOHNSON, (509) 455-8080

References

Reference (Deposit): MINE MAP REPO #403506 #403522

Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reference (Deposit): Singewald, Q. D., and Butler, B. S., 1941, Ore deposits in the vicinity of the London fault of Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 911, 74 p.

Reference (Deposit): Patton, H. B., Hoskin, A. J., and Butler, G. M., 1912, Geology and ore deposits of the Alma district, Park County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 3, 284 p.

Reference (Deposit): USGS ALMA QUAD

Reference (Deposit): OPER: MINERALS MINING CORP

Reference (Deposit): BLM SURFACE QUAD NW-29

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