Smuggler Mine, Jamestown District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 40° 10' 6'' North , 105° 17' 33'' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 40.16833,-105.29250 |
| Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
REF:Deposit:: LOVERING AND GODDARD, 1950, USGS PP 223, PG. 269-270. PLATE 3
Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10,62
Deposit:: REF. VANDERWILT MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLO. P 324
Commodities (Major) - Silver, Gold
Deposit Type: Vein
Development Status: Occurrence
Host Rock Unit: Silver Plume Granite
Host Rock: Granite, Schist
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
14 valid minerals.
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This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Early Triassic - Permian 247.2 - 298.9 Ma ID: 2753192 | Lykins Fm and Lyons Sandstone Age: Phanerozoic (247.2 - 298.9 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Lykins Formation; Lyons Sandstone Lithology: Major:{sandstone,shale,limestone}, Minor:{siltstone} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
| Permian 252.17 - 298.9 Ma ID: 2213502 | Lyons Sandstone Age: Permian (252.17 - 298.9 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Lyons Sandstone Description: Moderate-orange, pink to pinkish-gray, fine- to medium-grained, firmly cemented, well-sorted, cross-stratified, quartzose sandstone; about 77 m thick in Boulder area, 108 m in Lyons quadrangle, but only 6 m thick northwest of Ft. Collins; at Greeley it i Reference: Colton, Roger B. Geologic Map of the Boulder-Fort Collins-Greeley area, Colorado . U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-855-G. [37] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3186950 | Paleoproterozoic crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Lithology: Orthogneiss/paragneiss Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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Smuggler Mine, Jamestown District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA