Mine detail: Overton-Steele Hollow Iron Deposits

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Location

Lat / long:

38.35279, -104.57999

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite, Pyrite, Siderite
Gangue:	Calcite
Discovery year:	1900

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Pierre Shale (Rusty Zone)
Host type:	Shale
Structure:	Denver Basin, Canon City Embayment, Apishapa Uplift,, Pueblo Anticline
Tectonic:	Central Platform
Alteration processes:	Alteration And Oxidation Of Pyrite

References

MRDS	D009701
DEP	10013419
Reference	{Deposit:: HARRER, C. M., AND TESCH, W. J., JR., 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF IRON OCCURRENCES IN COLORADO: USBM IC 7918, P. 59}{Deposit:: GILBERT, G. K., 1897, DESCRIPTION OF THE PUEBLO QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 36}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G. R., 1969, GENERAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PART OF PUEBLO, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1262, P. 77-80.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.