Mine detail: Lamartine Mine

Previously called 'Lamartine Group (R. E. Lee, Chloride, Collateral, St. Louis, Silver Queen, Money Musk, Financier, LaLamartine Shaft Group'

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Location: Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.73249, -105.61448
dep_id: 10009774
mrds_id: D002968
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc
Minor mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Large ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Gold
gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: wall rocks are silicified, sericitized, bleached, and pyritized
Reporter: Melton, Greg, Hasler, J. William, Beach, Richard A., Conservation Division Files, Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC)
hrock_unit: Idaho Springs Formation
hrock_type: Gneiss,Migmatite,Pegmatite
arock_type: Porphyry
Structure: ore shoots localized at vein intersections and by changes in strike or dip of vein
References:
  • Deposit:: Harrison, J. E., and Wells, J. D., 1956, Geology and ore deposits of the Freeland-Lamartine district, Clear Creek County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1032-B, pp. 33-127.
  • Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
  • Deposit:: Spurr, J. E., Garrey, G. H., and Ball, S. H., 1908, Economic geology of the Georgetown quadrangle, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 63, 422 p.
  • Deposit:: BLM CONNECTING SHEETS
  • Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 11,69
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