Mine detail: Ophir Creek Claims

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Location

Lat / long:

38.03641, -105.14334

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Gold, Silver
Ore:	Cerargyrite, Gold

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Deer Peak Volcanics, Rhyodacite And Rhyodacite Porphryr;Deer Peak Volcanics, Breccia Pipe Of Porphyry And Gneiss
Host type:	Rhyodacite
Structure:	Deer Peak Volcanics, Wet Mountains, Ne-Trending Fault, Breccia Pipe
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Sericitization, Pyritization

References

MRDS	D002892
DEP	10009736
Reference	{Deposit:: TAYLOR, R.B., 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DEER PEAK QUADRANGLE AND SOUTHERN PART OF THE HARDSCRABBLE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, CUSTER AND HUERFANO COUNTIES, COLORADO: UAFA MP I-870, 1:24,000.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., AND TAYLOR, R.B., 1975, POST-PALEOCENE TERTIARY ROCKS AND QUATERNARY VOLCANIC ASH OF THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 868, 15 P.}
Reporter	Hasler, J. William, Collins, Donna B.