Mine detail: Blake (Mirage, Cotton Creek) District

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Location

Lat / long: 38.12807, -105.78197

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Copper, Gold
Secondary: Lead
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Hematite, Malachite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Gneiss, silicified breccia
Host type:Gneiss
Structure:Sangre De Cristo Fault

References

MRDSD008965
DEP10012938
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., AND TAYLOR, R.B., 1974, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ELECTRIC PEAK QUADRANGLE, CUSTER AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MF-628.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., AND OTHERS, 1978. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1X2 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS I-1022.}{Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 191}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES MINE MGR. AND INSPECTORS REPTS.}{Deposit:: Benson, R.G., 1997, Detachment fault-related mineralization in a rift setting at the San Luis gold deposit and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Alamosa, Costilla, and Saguache Counties, Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, Ph.D. dissertation, 226 p.}{Deposit:: Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thompson, J.R., 1983, Mineral investigation of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado, U.S. Bureau of Mines MLA 65-83, 190 p.}{Production:: VANDERBILT, 1947, P. 191}
ReporterKeller, John W.