Geologic Map of the Maysville Quadrangle, Chaffee County, Colorado

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localization of silicification and quartz veining in fault breccias associated with Tertiary rhyolite dikes in the Shavano fault zone is interpreted to support a relatively young age (post-29 Ma) for the silicification. The chalcedonic and locally vuggy, open-space textures of the silicification and quartz veins, suggest a shallow-level epithermal character to the mineralization. The mines and prospects in the Proterozoic terrane in the southwest quadrant of the quadrangle are commonly (but not exclusively) associated with calc-silicate zones that are interlayered with amphibolite gneiss (Xag). Some small mines and numerous prospects are located on Berthoud-type granite and pegmatite dikes and sills (YXgp) or quartz veins. Many mines and prospects have all three of these features (calc-silicates, pegmatites, and quartz veins) and it is not always clear what the target of mining and prospecting was. Three types of igneous rocks are locally associated with the calc-silicate zones: (1) most common are Berthoud-type granite and pegmatite dikes; (2) a Proterozoic () microdiorite dike (Xmd); and (3) Tertiary () andesite (Ta) dikes. Calc-silicate minerals do not occur in (that is endoskarn) the Berthoud-type granite and pegmatite dikes or the Tertiary () andesite dikes. Further, the calc-silicate zones are not spatially associated with the granite and pegmatite and andesite dikes, nor are there indications of zonation of calc-silicate assemblages about these intrusions. The calc-silicate zones are not spatially associated with the Routt-type granodiorite (Xgd) intrusions and dikes. These relationships suggest that the calc-silicate zones (Xcs) do not have the characteristics of contact skarns associated with intrusions. A Proterozoic () microdiorite dike (Xmd) located about 10,000 ft southwest of Maysville has local epidote endoskarn and weak sulfide mineralization. In addition, some amphibolite zones have irregular development of patches and veins of endoskarn-like epidote-actinolite. These relationships suggest that the microdiorite dikes and metamorphic recrystallization of the amphibolites may have been contemporaneous with the formation of the calc-silicate zones. The distribution of four of the larger calc-silicate gneiss (Xcs) zones is shown on plate 1. Additional areas of smaller calc-silicate gneiss mixed with amphibolite gneiss are shown with fractional units (Xag/Xcs). The largest group of mines in the southwest 196
quadrant of the Maysville quadrangle is associated with an amphibolite gneiss (Xag) and calc-silicate gneiss (Xcs) zone on the ridge between Willow Creek and Green Creek. This area includes the Bon Ton mine in the SE 1 / 4 , Section 9, T49N, R7E. A second group of mines is present about 1,500 to 4,000 ft south of the Maysville quadrangle boundary, on the ridge between Green and Redman Creeks, in Sections 16 and 21, T49N, R7E. This group of mines includes the Cinderella mine shown on the U.S. Geological Survey 71/2- minute Mount Ouray quadrangle base map. Historically the locations of the Bon Ton and Cinderella mines have been uncertain. Sheridan and Raymond (1984) and Heimann and others (2005) reverse the locations of these mines with the Cinderella mine shown north of the Bon Ton mine. The calc-silicate zones exhibit a transitional character from hornfels gneiss to weak epidote calc-silicate to moderate epidote-garnet calc-silicate to strong, complex calc-silicate assemblages. The distribution of these zones of variable calc-silicate mineral development do not show systematic patterns that support zonation about a specific center or to specific intrusions. Therefore, the calc-silicate zones are considered to be regional, rather than local features and are generally interpreted to be related to highgrade (amphibolite), regional metamorphism. The areas of calc-silicate development are suspected of having a relatively lime-rich protolith, possibly including carbonate-bearing fine-grained sediments. Areas of strong calc-silicate development may represent horizons of impure to pure limestone/marble. The mineralization is spatially associated with strong calc-silicate zones characterized by more complex calc-silicate assemblages that include diopsidehedenbergite, black amphibole (hornblende), green amphibole (actinolite-tremolite), magnetite, hematite, pink and reddish-brown garnet, black biotite, muscovite, chlorite, epidote, quartz, carbonate, and sphene. Knight (1981) identified an anthophyllite gneiss unit that is spatially associated with the Zn-Cu mineralization. Mineralization includes disseminated to semi-massive sulfides that are generally intimately associated and intergrown with calc-silicate gangue. The mineralization includes sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and locally abundant gahnite (Zn-spinel), with minor chalcopyrite, galena, and covellite. The size of the sulfide-rich zones was not determined in this study, but the distribution of mine workings suggests the sulfides are concentrated in relatively narrow 197
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OPEN-FILE REPORT 06-10 Geologic Map
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction…
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mylonitic, augen textures………
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INTRODUCTION LOCATION AND ACCESS Th
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SAWATCH RANGE RIFT-SHOULDER UPLIFT
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of the South Arkansas River (subseq
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EXPLANATION Rio Grande Rift Neogene
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in descriptions of the geologic uni
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During the Early and Middle Paleozo
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Mountains, and White River uplifts
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field are the largest remnants of t
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Figure 5. Detailed geologic-structu
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with the Colorado mineral belt (Boo
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Shannon, 2005). Widmann and others
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the Upper Arkansas graben (fig. 5)
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15-minute quadrangle, which is adja
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etween the northern and southern se
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on U.S. Forest Service color aerial
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We use fractional map units on the
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Qpt Pinedale till, undivided (late
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weathered, but Mount Princeton quar
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stratified, matrix-supported, bould
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as rockfalls, rock avalanches, rock
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stream-channel deposits of all pere
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Figure 10. View west up South Arkan
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Figure 11. View west up South Arkan
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valley near the eastern map boundar
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lithologies are variable and depend
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Arkansas River in parts of Redman C
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angular to subangular. Deposits gen
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elations, age constraints from foss
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elated to the inferred Squaw Creek
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Figure 14. Crude bedding in coarse
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microcline, and muscovite. The latt
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Volcanic Ash Figure 17. View of eas
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Figure 18. Close-up view of intense
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The western zone of brecciated Pale
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Tr Rhyolite dikes (early to late Ol
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as the overall N47°E trend of the
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One age determination on the rhyoli
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northwest-trending fault. Thus, fie
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on the North Fork leucogranite intr
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A small 400 by 400 foot body of Nor
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N12°E, 62°NW (about 6,000 ft sout
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The age of the quartz latite porphy
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Tma Mount Aetna quartz monzonite po
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of the Maysville quadrangle and the
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Mount Aetna ring dikes (Tma), one i
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the margins of the pluton, includin
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Shannon (1988). The average of seve
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indicating a granite b composition
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analysis by Crawford (1913), two an
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locally tanish to pinkish gray. It
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quadrangle (tables 1 and 3) were fr
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slices of Paleozoic sedimentary roc
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south-southwest of Maysville is a 9
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There is one additional Paleozoic s
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near the southwest margin of the qu
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eastern contact of the diorite intr
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endoskarn zones. The two widely sep
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Xhig) along the southeastern contac
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Xgd Granodiorite (Early Proterozoic
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Hybrid granodiorite is locally deve
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Xcs Calc-silicate gneiss (Early Pro
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Many of the calc-silicate gneiss zo
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typically expressed by intermittent
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The field relations and characteris
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the north side of all three segment
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eplaced by muscovite. The western m
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sillimanite-quartz-muscovite that a
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sillimanite gneiss (Xmsg) and the m
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Figure 35. Outcrop of Proterozoic h
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Page 201 and 202: WATER RESOURCES Water resources on
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Page 217 and 218: Tweto, O., 1987, Rock units of the
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Page 223 and 224: 336A 396189 4274961 Prospect Xgdf B
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Geologic Map of the Maysville Quadrangle, Chaffee County, Colorado

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