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Upper Copper Gulch Claims, Upper Copper Gulch Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USAi
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Upper Copper Gulch ClaimsGroup of Claims
Upper Copper Gulch AreaArea
Fremont CountyCounty
ColoradoState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
38° 26' 8'' North , 105° 23' 34'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Group of Claims
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Cañon City16,400 (2013)13.1km
Lincoln Park3,546 (2011)15.1km
Brookside246 (2017)17.6km
Rockvale498 (2017)21.2km
Williamsburg656 (2017)21.8km
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ClubLocationDistance
Canon City Geology ClubCanon City, Colorado13km
Mindat Locality ID:
113221
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:113221:5
GUID (UUID V4):
25ac8680-a177-4d4e-8d0b-9de52b8a0328


REF:Deposit:: COKER, R. J., 1982, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ARKANSAS CANYON PLANNING UNIT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE FORMER GRAPE CREEK WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS AND THE MCINTYRE HILLS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA: US BLM MINERAL REPORT, P. 84-86
Deposit:: TAYLOR, R
Commodities (Major) - Silver, Copper
Development Status: Occurrence
Host Rock Unit: Migmatitic Gneiss
Structure: Shear Zones, Ilse Fault, Webster Park Graben, Northern Wet Mountains, Canon City Embayment, Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field
Host Rock: Biotite Gneiss
Tectonic Structure: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)

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