Mine detail: Lead Hill Deposit

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Location

Lat / long:

38.18251, -105.21529

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead
Gangue:	Calcite, Limonite
Discovery year:	1915

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Production size:	None
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Undivided Gneiss
Host type:	Granite
Structure:	Wet Mountains, Ilse Fault
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera, Southern Rockies
Alteration processes:	Extensive Oxidation And Other Alteration

References

MRDS	D008912
DEP	10012905
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.