# Kollenborn 1997: Geology of the Superstition Wilderness Area

> Tom Kollenborn, 1997. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. For the mineralisation record as known locally.

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# Geology of the Superstition Wilderness Area

Tom Kollenborn, 1997. _Apache Junction Public Library (Kollenborn Chronicles)_.

A local historian's plain account of the range's volcanic geology, noting that the wilderness has never proved highly mineralised near the surface, that mining companies have avoided it, that 1970s core drilling near Woodbury found nothing, and that the small gold veins belong to the Goldfield area outside the range.

**Lost Dutchman's gold mine** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

For the mineralisation record as known locally.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Gold exists on the range's margins (Goldfield's epithermal veins) and a legend placed inside the range could…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/answers/ANS0D0G0GDP25DP/gold-exists-on-the-ranges-margins-goldfields-epithermal)

Answer

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[Precambrian granites occur in a few isolated areas of the wilderness.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/evidence/EVD0D0G0H547GW1/precambrian-granites-occur-in-a-few-isolated-areas-of-the)

Evidence

EVD

[The range is a Miocene caldera complex of tuff and lava; no significant mineralisation has been found and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/evidence/EVD0D0G0CRG4DQR/the-range-is-a-miocene-caldera-complex-of-tuff-and-lava-no)

Evidence

EVD

[The wilderness has never proved mineralised near the surface; 1970s drilling near Woodbury found nothing;…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/evidence/EVD0D0G0G5W0F6D/the-wilderness-has-never-proved-mineralised-near-the-surface)

Evidence

EVD

[The Lost Dutchman's gold mine](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine)

The mystery article

MYS

[Can the Superstition Mountains hold a rich gold vein?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0B9M1S49/can-the-superstition-mountains-hold-a-rich-gold-vein)

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## Cite it

```
Kollenborn, T. (1997). Geology of the Superstition Wilderness Area. Apache Junction Public Library (Kollenborn Chronicles). https://www.ajpl.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Geology-of-the-Supers-2.pdf
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