Hock Hocking

The Hock Hocking is a zinc, lead, gold, and silver mine located in Park county, Colorado at an elevation of 10,801 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Hock Hocking
Secondary: Hock Hock

Commodity

Primary: Zinc
Primary: Lead
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper

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: Boca Polo, Inc.
Info Year: 1980

Owner Name: Silver State Mining Co
Company ID: 570022
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Colorado
Info Year: 1995

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1879
Discovery Year: 1879
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic replacement

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Not available

Comments

Comment (Production): Silver State Mining Co. was developing 2 veins in the mine in 1980. (1980, Sunshine files)

Comment (Production): DEVELOPMENT & EXPLORATION WORK WAS CARRIED OUT IN 1990, THIS INCLUDED, CORE DRILLING AND SAMPLING. SOME REPAIRS ARE ALSO BEING MADE.

Comment (Commodity): Expected grade of 0.3 oz/t gold, 17 oz/t silver, 4% lead, 3% zinc, and 0.7% copper. (1980, Sunshine files)

Comment (Geology): Veins and replacement deposits in Lower Paleozoic limestone.

Comment (Location): On the south side of Mosquito Creek, about 2 miles SW of Alma, in the SW/4 sec. 15, T 9 S, R 78 W.

Comment (Ownership): COMPANY NAME AS REPORTED MSHA.DBF, 1995 IS SILVER STATE MINING CRP. OWNER/COMPANY AS LISTED BEFORE MSHA, 1995 UPDATE. RELATIONSHIP TO CURRENT COMPANY UNKNOWN. BOCA POLO INC., C/O JOHN T. OXLEY, SR., WILLIAMS CENTER TOWER 1, SUITE 1305, ONE WEST THIRD STREET, TULSA, OK., 74103, (918)584-1978

Comment (Production): Early production (1880s) was from rich oxidized silver-lead ores in replacement deposits in Lower Paleozoic limestone.

References

Reference (Deposit): MINE MAP REPOSITORY: #404504 #407380

Reference (Deposit): Machado, J. E., 1967, Geology and ore deposits of Pennsylvania Hill, Alma district, south Park, Park County, Colorado: Golden, CO, Colorado School of Mines, M.S. thesis, 153 p.

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

Reference (Deposit): UPDATE WITH MSHA.DBF, 1995.

Reference (Deposit): USGS ALMA QUAD

Reference (Deposit): MILS UPDATED USING MSHA SHEET, 3/80

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.

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