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Copper Lode

Creede, Colorado

37.8720°N 106.9310°W

Mine Overview

The Copper Lode is near Creede, Colorado. Historically the site has been associated with the Creed Mining District which is now part of the Rio Grande National Forest. The Copper Lode was closed at the time of data entry with no known plans to re-open. Production size when active was considered to be small. Mine operations consist of underground workings. There is one known shaft. Subsurface length extends a maximum of 223 meters (730 feet). Associated rock in this area is rhyolite from the Oligocene epoch 33.90 to 23.03 million years ago. The Southern Rocky Mountains physiographic province of the Rocky Mountain System characterize the geomorphology of the surrounding area.

Site identification and general characteristics. Learn about USGS mines.

  • Silver Primary Commodity
  • Site Record Type?
  • Mine Development Status?
  • Underground Operation Type?
  • Ore Mineral In Place Discovery Method?
  • Small Production Size?
  • Metallic Site Commodity Type?
  • Small Mine Size?
Copper Lode Near Creede, Colorado

Copper Lode Near Creede, Colorado

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Mine Names

  1. Name? Status?
  2. Copper Lode Current

Owner Name and Address

I. Johnson

Commodities

Additional textual information about a site or mine.

  1. Commodity Type Importance
  2. Silver Metallic Primary

Deposit

ATTITUDE OF VEIN IN TUNNEL. ON COMMODORE 3 LEVEL, SAME VEIN HAS ATTITUDE N70W, 72SW.

Location Info

  1. Continent Country State County
  2. North America The United States Colorado Mineral

Notes

S-T-R, LAT-LONG, AND ELEV DETERMINED FROM EMMONS AND LARSEN'S (1923) TOPO MAP (1:24, 000 ). MINE OR CLAIM LIES BETW. JACKPOT TUNNEL AND BACHELOR MINE, 300 FEET NORTHWEST OF COMMODORE 3 ADIT; INFO FROM LAND. ST : (1976).

Meridian / Township / Range Description

  1. Meridian? Township? Section? Aliquot?
  2. New Mexico Meridian T.42N R.1W Sec. 24 NE
  3. New Mexico Meridian T.42N R.1W Sec. 24 SW

Land Status

Land status information.

  1. Land Status? Admin Area?
  2. Private -

Mining Districts

Formal or informal mining district names.

  1. District
  2. Creed Mining District

Workings

Workings at the site.

Underground Workings #1

  • Type: Underground
  • Sub Surface Length: 222.5 Meters

Workings

150-FEET TUNNEL DRIVEN ON VEIN; 40-FEET SHAFT SUNK NEAR PORTAL. SAME VEIN IS DEVELOPED ON COMMODORE 3 LEVEL BY COPPER CROSSCUT TUNNEL (200 FEET CROSSCUT, 340 FEET OF DRIFTS ), WHICH WAS DRIVEN GENERALLY WEST FROM A POINT 145 FEET INSIDE COMMODORE 3 TUNNEL.

Concentration Process

Processes that concentrated or enriched the mineralization of the mine.

  1. Concentration Process
  2. Pressure From Stock Beneath Bachelor Caldera Reactivated Keystone Graben And Started A North-South-Flowing, Freely Convecting Hydrothermal System Of Sulfate-Rich Solutions That Deposited Ore And Gangue Near Top Of Convecting Cell By Hypogene Enrichment Process. Boiling, With Loss Of Acid Constituents And Resulting Rise In Ph Caused Precipitation Of Ores And Formation Of Intensely Altered Sericitic Cap Above Ore. Cap Is Actually Coalescence Of Alteration Fans Spreading Upward And Outward Thru Fractured And Porous Rock In Main Fault Zones And Along Parallel And Antithetic Fractures In Hanging Wall.

Materials

Minerals or other materials present in the mine.

  1. Role? Material?
  2. Gangue/Waste Amethyst
  3. Gangue/Waste Barite
  4. Gangue/Waste Copper
  5. Gangue/Waste Limonite
  6. Gangue/Waste Quartz
  7. Gangue/Waste Wad

Orebody

Characteristics of the ore body.

  • Strike: north 68 west
  • Dip: 75 southwest

Rocks

Geological materials at the site.

  1. Class? 1st Order Name? 2nd Order Name? 3rd Order Name? 4th Order Name? Most Specific Name? Begin Time End Time Description?
  2. Associated Rock Campbell Mountain Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite; Willow Creek Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) Felsic Volcanic Rock Rhyolite Rhyolite Oligocene Oligocene -
  3. Host Rock Campbell Mountain Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite; Willow Creek Member Of Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) Felsic Volcanic Rock Rhyolite Rhyolite - - -
  4. Mineralization - - - - - Miocene Miocene -

Structure

Geologic structural features affecting or characterizing the site or mine.

  1. Scale Description
  2. Local Amethyst Fault Zone; Creede Graben
  3. Regional La Garita, Creede, And Bachelor Calderas; San Juan Volcanic Field

Tectonic

Tectonic setting in which the site or deposit is situated.

  1. Setting?
  2. Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

Physiography

Physiographic area where the resource is found.

  1. Division Province? Section
  2. Rocky Mountain System Southern Rocky Mountains -

Analytical Data

Results of chemical or mineralogical analysis on materials at or near the site

  1. Line? Analysis Data?
  2. 1 20 OUNCE PER TON SILVER

Ore Control

Controls on emplacement of ore such as faults or other structural features.

  1. Text?
  2. Fractured Rock Between Amethyst Vein And Ancestral Amethyst Fault

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Other deposits in the same region.

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Footnotes

* Mine bounds on map indicate the general area that a mine occupies. For an detailed map, refer to the overseeing BLM field office.

** The mine central point is based on an average of the mine's bounding box(es) and does not necessarily fall on the claim itself.

1 World-class significance is determined by total endowment of the contained commodity. This includes all past production and remaining reserves. Each commodity is considered separately and commodities cannot be combined to arrive at a significant size. The tonnage thresholds are from the mine model grade-tonnage studies. As of June 2008, many entries were classified as significant under less strict rules.

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