Deposit ID | 10014386 |
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MRDS ID | D011132 |
Record type | District |
Current site name | Domingo District |
Alternate or previous names | Vulcan District, Patented Claims: Vulcan, MS 10909, War Eagle, MS 10910, Humming Bird, MS 10910, Rose Bud, MS 10910, Iron Clad, MS 10910, Della S., MS 11243, Morning Star, MS 11243, St.Patrick, MS 12175, Mammoth Chimney, MS 12454, Good Hope, MS 12456, Lincoln, MS 13156, Golden Slipper, MS 13179, Humboldt, MS 16392, Branch, MS 17215, Eclipse, MS 17390, Yellow Rose, MS 17390, Laura Belle, MS 19038, Mill Site Lode, MS 19920 |
Geographic coordinates: | -107.00173, 38.34528 (WGS84) |
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Elevation | 2719 |
Relative position | 14.3 MILES S 15 TO 20 W FROM GUNNISON |
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Country | State | County |
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United States | Colorado | Gunnison |
United States | Colorado | Saguache |
Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
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New Mexico | 047N | 001W | 07,08 | Colorado |
Commodity | Importance |
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Gold | Primary |
Silver | Primary |
Sulfur | Secondary |
Copper | Secondary |
Tellurium | Tertiary |
Lead | Tertiary |
Zinc | Tertiary |
Selenium | Tertiary |
Bismuth | Tertiary |
Thorium | Tertiary |
Vanadium | Tertiary |
Materials | Type of material |
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Chalcopyrite | Ore |
Copper | Ore |
Galena | Ore |
Gold | Ore |
Petzite | Ore |
Rickardite | Ore |
Sphalerite | Ore |
Sulfur | Ore |
Sylvanite | Ore |
Thorite | Ore |
Chlorite | Gangue |
Coloradoite | Gangue |
Jasper | Gangue |
Limonite | Gangue |
Magnetite | Gangue |
Pyrrhotite | Gangue |
Quartz | Gangue |
Sericite | Gangue |
Tetradymite | Gangue |
Host or associated | Associated | ||
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Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Carbonatite, Intrusive | ||
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Host or associated | Associated |
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Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Trachyte |
Host or associated | Associated |
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Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite |
Host or associated | Associated |
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Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
Rock unit name | Granite Of Tolvar Jpeak;Trachyte And Trachyte Porphyry Dikes;Carbonatite;Quartz Vein |
Rock description | Granite Of Tolvar Jpeak;Trachyte And Trachyte Porphyry Dikes;Carbonatite;Quartz Vein |
Host or associated | Host |
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Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Trachyte |
Rock unit name | Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry;Dubois Greenstone--Quartzite |
Rock description | Dubois Greenstone--Felsite And Felsite Porphyry;Dubois Greenstone--Quartzite |
Host or associated | Host |
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Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
(1) | -107.00173, 38.34528 |
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Type | Description | Terms |
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Regional | Gunnison Uplift, San Juan Volcanic Field | |
Local | Gunnison Gold Belt, Iron Hill Alkalic Complex, Tolvar Peak Stock |
Development status | Producer |
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Commodity type | Both metallic and non-metallic |
Deposit size | Small |
Significant | No |
Discovery year | 1894 |
Discovery method | Ore-Mineral In Place |
Year of first production | 1898 |
Year of last production | 1983 |
District name | Domingo (Vulcan) District |
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Ownership category | Private |
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Type | Operator |
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Owner | Webbco, Cleveland, Tx. (Vulcan Resources, Inc., El Paso, Tx) (Mammoth-Good Hope Mine) |
First year | 1983 |
Type | Owner |
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Owner | Herron Mining Co. (Mammoth-Good Hope Mine) |
First year | 1983 |
Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
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USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D011132 |
DROBECK, P.A., 1981, PROTEROZOIC SYNGENETIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE GUNNISON GOLD BELT, COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 279-286.
HARTLEY, P.D., 1976, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF A PRECAMBRIAN MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT AT VULCAN, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: STANFORD UNIV. M.SC. THESIS.
HARTLEY, P.D., 1983, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE VULCAN-GOOD HOPE MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO, IN HANDFIELD, R.C., ED., GUNNISON GOLD BELT AND POWDERHORN CARBONATITE FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK: DREGS, P. 19-27.
HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE POWDERHORN QUADRANGLE, GUNNISON AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1178.
LAKES, ARTHUR, 1896, SKETCH OF A PORTION OF THE GUNNISON GOLD BELT INCLUDING THE VULCAN AND MAMMOTH CHIMNEY MINES: AIME TRANS., V. 26, P. 440-448.
OLSON, J.C., AND OTHERS, 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SPRING HILL CREEK QUADRANGLE, SAGUACHE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-713.
SHERIDAN, D.M., AND OTHERS, 1981, PRECAMBRIAN SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE GUNNISON REGION, COLORADO, IN EPIS, R.C., AND CALLENDER, J.F., EDS., WESTERN SLOPE COLORADO: NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. 32D FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 273-277.
CAMERON, E.N., AND THREADGOLD, I.M., 1961, VULCANITE, A NEW COPPER TELLURIDE FROM COLORADO: AM. MINERALOGIST, V. 46, P. 258-268.
COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 10909, 10910, 11243, 12175, 12454, 12456, 13156, 13179, 16392, 17390, 19038, 199920
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | COUNTRY ROCK CONSISTS OF FELSIC VOLCANICS (RHYOLITE TUFFS AND RHYOLITIC LAPILLI TUFFS) METAMORPHOSED TO QUARTZOFELDSPATHIC SCHIST. AS RESULT OF HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY IN AND NEXT TO MINERALIZED ZONE, SCHISTS HAVE BEEN SERICITIZED, LOCALLY CHLORITIC. FOLIATION IS GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SUBPARALLEL TO BEDDING AND TRENDS EAST-WEST, DIPPING 75 TO 90 NORTH. FELSIC SEQUENCE IS BRACKETED BY THICK BASALTIC ANDESITE FLOWS METAMORPHOSED TO AMPHIBOLITE FACIES. SEQUENCE CONTAINS SEVERAL THIN, DISCONTINUOUS MAGNETITE-BEARING QUARTZITE (METACHERT) BEDS, MOST PROMINENT ONE MILE TO EAST AND APPROXIMATELY ALONG STRIKE OF SULFIDE MINERALIZATION. SEQUENCE IS INTRUDED GENERALLY ALONG FOLIATION BY APOPHYSIS OF TOLVAR PEAK GRANITE AND DISCORDANTLY BY TRACHYTE/TRACHYTE PORPHYRY DIKES. DRILLING NEAR ORE HORIZON INTERSECTED CARBONATITE DIKES (RELATED TO IRON HILL ALKALIC COMPLEX) THAT WERE NOT EXPOSED ON SURFACE. MAGNETIC ANOMALY 0.5 MILE NW OF MINE SUGGESTS POSSIBLE BURIED PYROXENITE PLUG. THREE TYPES OF MINERALIZATION: (1) STRATIFORM MASSIVE SULFIDE LENS; (2) AU-, AG-, AND CU-TELLURIDE-BEARING CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE SILICA VEIN SYSTEM CONFINED PRIMARILY TO HANGING WALL OF SULFIDE LENS; (3) NATIVE SULFUR/NATIVE SELENIUM LENS ABOUT PRESENT WATER TABLE. MASSIVE SULFIDE LENS TRENDS EAST-WEST, DIPS 80 TO 90 NORTH, AND IS ABOUT 700 FT LONG (ALONG STRIKE), 500 FT DEEP, AND AVERAGES 15 FT THICK; CONSISTS OF STRATIFORM ZONE OF BANDED, RECRYSTALLIZED COARSE-GRAINED PYRITE, SPHALERITE, AND CHALCOPYRITE WITH VARIABLE AMOUNTS OF QUARTZ AND SERICITE. LENS PINCHES OUT DOWNWARD INTO LOW-SULFIDE PYRITIC SERICITIC SCHIST. PETZITE AND SYLVANITE OCCUR AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS IN ZONE OF CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE SILICA (CHALCEDONY AND OPAL) IN QUARTZ-SERICITE SCHIST IN HANGING WALL OF MASSIVE SULFIDE LENS. CHALCEDONY VEINLETS ALSO OBSERVED CUTTING S/SE LENS AND OVERLYING GOSSAN. VEINLETS ALSO CONTAIN NATIVE TE CRYSTALS; TELLURITE, COLORADOITE, TETRADYMITE(?), AND RARE CU TELLURIDES (RICKARDITE, WEISSITE, AND VULCANITE). VEINLETS ARE UNMETAMORPHOSED AND SHOW DELICATE REPLACEMENT TEXTURES. IN OXIDIZED ZONE ABOVE SULFIDES IS HORIZONTAL, ROD-SHAPED LENS OF NATIVE SULFUR, CONTAINING SELENIUM, AND MEASURING 600 FT LONG, 20 FT THICK, AND 20 TO 30 FT WIDE. LENS LIES ABOVE WATER TABLE IN OXIDIZED SECTION OF MASSIVE SULFIDE LENS. BELOW WATER TABLE, SILICA MATRIX HAS BEEN LEACHED TO FORM ZONE OF LOOSE, FLOWING SANDLIKE PYRITE. LENS AVERAGES 78 % S AND 0.59 % SE, WITH SUBLENSES CONTAINING UP TO 17 % % SE. GOSSAN CAP DEVELOPED FROM TOP OF LENS TO SURFACE. DEPOSIT WAS ORIGINALLY BELIEVED TO BE VEIN AND CHIMNEY DEPOSIT, WITH NATIVE S RESULTING EITHER BY DOWNWARD DESULFURIZATION OR OXIDATION OF PYRITE OR BY PRECIPITATION FROM LATE-STAGE ASCENDING SULFURATED HYDROGEN GASES. NEWER INTERPRETATION OF SULFIDES IN GUNNISON GOLD BELT SHOWS MASSIVE SULFIDE TO BE SYNGENETIC, SUBMARINE, VOLCANOGENIC EXHALITE. DISTAL ORIGIN OF LENS SUGGESTED BY (1) ENCLOSURE WITHIN VOLCANICS DEPOSITED AT CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM SOURCE AREA; |
Deposit | (2) ABSENCE OF WELL-DEFINED FEEDER OR STRATABOUND STRINGER SYSTEM; (3) ZN-RICH NATURE OF LENS. HARTLEY (1983) POSTULATED SECOND, LATER PHASE OF MINERALIZATION IN WHICH AU AND AG IN CHALCEDONIC VEIN SYSTEM SERE RECONCENTRATED FROM PRECIOUS-METAL EXHALITE HORIZON AND INTRODUCED CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITHIN DEVELOPMENT OF GOSSAN AND S/SE LENS. MINERALIZING SOLUTIONS OF POSSIBLE MIOCENE AGE (SIMILAR IN AGE TO MINERALIZATION IN SAN JUAN MTNS) WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY (MASSIVE SULFIDE-METAVOLCANIC CONTACT) ALONG WHICH SULFIDES COULD PRECIPITATE TELLURIDES. THIS HOT SPRING STYLE OVERPRINT ON MASSIVE SULFIDES MAY HAVE AIDED IN CREATING FAVORABLE GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS FOR OXIDATION OF SULFIDE TO NATIVE S. SOURCE OF SE, TE, AU, AG, AND CU IN PRECIOUS-METAL VEIN ZONE IS PROBABLY THE MASIVE SULFIDE LENS, ALTHOUGH CARBONATITES INTERSECTED IN SUBSURFACE MAY HAVE INTRODUCED THE SE-TE OVERPRINT. DROBECK (1979) PROPOSED PROTEROZOIC SYNGENETIC FUMAROLIC ORIGIN OF SULFIDE LENS. EPIGENETIC MINERALIZATION PROBABLY CREATED BY SYSTEM OF CONVECTING HOT FLUIDS (ALONG CONTACT BETWEEN SULFIDE LENS AND HOST ROCK) THAT REDISTRIBUTED TRACE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCED ZONES OF INTENSE ALTERATION. DROBECK SHOWED THAT VULCAN DEPOSIT COULD FIT INTO CUPOLA PRE-INTRUSIVE LEVEL OF DEEPER PORPHYRY INTRUSION OF POSSIBLE OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE AGE. TRACHYTE DIKES IN THIS AREA ARE OF FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF TH OCCURRENCE KNOWN IN POWDERHORN-IORN HILL AREA AND ARE PROBABLY RELATED TO EMPLACEMENT OF LATE PRECAMBRIAN SYENITES NORTH AND WEST OF IRON HILL AND OF YOUNGER LATE PRECAMBRIAN OR CAMBRIAN CARBONATITES AT IRON HILL. DIKES FOLLOW LOCAL JOINTING IN FELSITE AND GRANITE AND ARE COMPOSED OF LATH-SHAPED ORTHOCLASE PHENOCRYSTS IN TRACHYTIC, APHANOTIC GROUNDMASS OF ORTHOCLASE MICROLITES. RADIOACTIVITY IS CONCENTRATED IN HEMATITE PSEUDOMORPHS AFTER PYRITE. |
Deposit | DISTRICT HAS BEEN KNOWN BY POPULAR NAME OF "VULCAN" BUT BLM CLAIM RECORDS ASSIGN DISTRICT NAME OF "DOMINGO." INDIVIDUAL RECORDS PREPARED FOR DISTRICT'S PRINCIPAL MINE (MAMMOTH-GOOD HOPE) AND FOR KNOWN THORIUM PROSPECT (SUNSET CLAIMS). ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: (11) BARGE, E.M., 1971, GEOLOGICAL REPORT--VULCAN DEPOSIT, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: UNPUB. REPT.; (12) CRAWFORD, E.P., 1927, SELENIUM DEPOSITS AT VULCAN: UNPUB. NOTES; (13) CRAWFORD, W.P., AND JOHNSON, F., 1922, GEOLOGY AND CYANIDATION OF ORE FROM THE GOOD HOPE MINE, VULCAN, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES M.SC. THESIS T-477; (14) DROBECK, P.A., 1979, GEOLOGY AND TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF A PART OF THE GUNNISON GOLD BELT, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES M.SC. THESIS T-2251; (15) HEDLUND, D.C., AND OLSON, J.C., 1961, FOUR ENVIRONMENTS OF THORIUM-, NIOBIUM-, AND RARE-EARTH-BEARING MINERALS IN THE POWDERHORN DISTRICT OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 424-B, P. B283-B286; (16) LAKES, ARTHUR, 1898, ORES OF THE VULCAN MINE: MINES AND MINERALS, V. 18, P.562-563; (17) NELSON, A.P., (NO DATE), MINING DISTRICTS, PRODUCTING MINES AND PROSPECTIVE PROPERTIES (OF GUNNISON COUNTY): COLORADO STATE PLANNING COMM. UNPIB. REPT., P.5; (18) NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL/ 40, P.176; (19) RICKARD, T.A., 1903, ACROSS THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS: ENG. MINING JOUR., V.76, P. 387; (20)SHARPS, T.L., 1965, SULFUR DEPOSITS OF COLORADO; COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULL., V. 8, NO. 6; (21) TROST, P.B., 1975, GEOLOGIC REPORT ON THE VULCAN-ANACONDA-HEADLIGHT MINE AREA, DUBOIS GREENSTONE, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO: UNPIB. REPT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 01-JAN-1984 | Schwochow, Stephen D. | Colorado Geological Survey |