Mine detail: Hector Prospect

Previously called 'Tressie B. ClaimsContactGroundhog'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.12751, -105.32418

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Orebody form:	breccia pipe
Discovery year:	1881

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Deposit type:	pipe
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated rock:	Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
Associated type:	Andesite
Structure:	Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Breccia Pipe
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Strongly Argillized

References

MRDS	D007661
DEP	10012190
Reference	{Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, 1896, GEOLOGY OF SILVER CLIFF AND THE ROSITA HILLS, COLORADO: USGS 17TH ANN. REPORT, PT 2, P. 263-403.}{Deposit:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAPS I-1081.}{Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A.