Mine detail: Eunice Mine

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Location: Mineral County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.87279, -106.9134
dep_id: 10012350
mrds_id: D007933
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead
Minor mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Willow Creek Member Of Bachelor Mtn. Rhyolite
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_unit: Willow Creek Member Of Bachelor Mtn. Rhyolite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: San Juan Volcanic Field; La Garita, Creede, And Bachelor Calderas, Small Area Of Complex Fracturing, Possibly A Southeastward Extension Of Solomon-Holy Moses Fault Zone But More Likely Related To Similar Set Of Fractures That Diagonally Terminates South End Of S-Hm Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., AND LARSEN, E.S. 1923, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 718, 198 P.
  • Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., AND RATTE, J.C., 1965, GEOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL CONTROL OF ORE DEPOSITION IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 487, 90 P.
  • Deposit:: LINDEMANN, J.W., AND OTHERS, EDS., 1981, FIELD TRIP NOTES, CREEDE MINING DISTRICT, SAN JUAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE, COLORADO: DENVER REGIONAL EXPLORATION GEOLOGISTS SOC. GUIDEBOOK
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