Mine detail: Lead Hill Deposit

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.18251, -105.21529
dep_id: 10012905
mrds_id: D008912
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead
Operation type: Underground
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
gangue: Calcite, Limonite
model: 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins
alteration: Extensive Oxidation And Other Alteration
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 Rockies
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1915
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 1-1022, 1:250,000
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