Mine detail: Qualla and Young Sampson Lodes

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Location

Lat / long:

39.51638, -105.18669

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead
Secondary:	Gold
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Biotite Gneiss;Felsic Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss,Amphibolite
Associated rock:	Coarse-Grained Pegmatite
Associated type:	Pegmatite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Floyd Hill Fault Zone, Unnamed Overturned Synclines
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010206
DEP	10013745
Reference	{Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, AND OTHERS, 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE INDIAN HILLS QUADRANGLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1073.}{Deposit:: NARAMORE, CHESTER, 1907, GOLD AND SILVER--COLORADO: USGS MINERAL RESOURCES OF US, 1906, P. 220.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D., Spanski, Gregory T.