MINEBK00328

• County: La Plata
• Volume: 15
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

COPPEH HILL--2.
T I TLE. _
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This group of 111nes is owned by Dodder and Beach.
Ilot incorporated, hAncy, no capital stock•
Principal Office'located at La Platte, Colorado,
Manager, E.id.Aeach, La'Platta, Colorado.
H I S T O R Y.
-Date of original. location 1909.
It has worked allmost continuously since that time.
T O P O G R A P H Y.
The surface of the mountain is rough and steep and covered
with a good aup~ly of growing timber of spruco and pine,
At an 'altitude of 93A0 feet•
The water supnly is good from what is known as Bed Rock
Creek. Th1:= flows within 300 feet of the hfaln 'workings.
G S O L O G Y.
A good geological survey has been made of this Diatr•lct.
The character of country rook in diorite, porphyry and Limo.
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The rhnractr+r of the main nro bodiris is a large dopoait on
the contact of Lime.
'The place wheru wOC•IS In lieLtg carried on ^t the present LLne
is about GO fe•.a high, 7u feot long and 70 feot rridn, and
la worked aA an open cut or query on benches.
There is no wall on ulthor Hide yet.
The rhuructnr oi' vein filling Ss Coru+try rock and Hopper
Pyrites.
6letals ure gold, silver and copper.
All of the vein Ss 'emnl.tin~ ore.
Avnruge3 ns:;uy or unnl.ysoo per• Lon G ~$ copper, 4 nz,sllvet'
h~100 gold.
The 'nurfnce pleuit con:~lntr+ of Lwo t.tl'ty Lon orc b1nm,
Ore Iiouao, Blnokemith "uhop eu+d n Story. Ilouue.
Tho mr,t]tod el' lighting ]'r, cnndlen. '
Hurfncn trunnportnt7.on 1r{ done by wu~on to Mny Duy Ealing,
n dietancn of tour m1Leu. 'i'har~, 1:. n Surl'uc,+ Tram about ;500 t'eoL
long tbot. nonnact,s tdine with l'Ini;on Rourl,
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