Mine detail: Moor* Property

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.1939, -105.22279
dep_id: 10012904
mrds_id: D008911
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
gangue: Calcite, Limonite
work_type: Underground
model: 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins
alteration: Extensive Oxidation
ore_ctrl: Fault/Shear Zone; Ilse Fault
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit: Undivided Gneiss
hrock_type: Granite
Structure: Wet Mountains, Ilse Fault
tectonic: Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns
yr_lst_prd: 1908
disc_yr: 1895
References:
  • Deposit:: HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37
  • Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.
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