Camp Bird Mine, Ouray, Sneffels District (Mount Sneffels District), Ouray Co., Colorado, USA

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Located 6 miles South of Ouray. A gold-zinc-silver-lead-copper mine discovered by Thomas F. Walsh (1896) and owned by the Federal Resources Corp. Operated 1896 to 1990. Main ore body is the Camp Bird vein, with replacement ore bodies on three other veins. Produced about 1.5 million Troy ounces of gold to 1990. Also produced 4 million Troy ounces of silver.

NOTE: The Yale Peabody GNIS database provides three sets of coordinates for this mine based on the levels that have tunnels exiting the mountain plus a set of coordinates for the populated place (town).

Mineral List

Altaite Anglesite Anhydrite Ankerite Baryte Bornite Calcite Cerussite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Clinochlore Clinozoisite Covellite Dickite

Digenite Dolomite Epidote Ferrimolybdite Fluorapatite Fluorite Galena Gold Greenockite Grossular Gypsum Hematite Hessite Hübnerite

Illite Kaolinite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Kutnohorite Magnetite Matildite Muscovite var: Sericite Orthoclase Petzite Piemontite Powellite Pyrite Pyroxmangite Pyrrhotite

Quartz var: Milky Quartz Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Scheelite Siderite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Uraninite 'Wad' Zoisite

53 entries listed. 48 valid minerals.

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