Mine detail: Sphalerite Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.03193, -106.61534

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Quartz Latite Porphyry (Sawmill Plug);Diorite (Twin Lakes Batholith)
Host type:	Diorite,Quartz Latite
Associated rock:	Quartz Latite Porphyry (Sawmill Plug);Diorite (Twin Lakes Batholith)
Associated type:	Diorite,Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Structure:	Sawatch Uplift, Central Colorado Trough, Arkansas Valley Graben, Twin Lakes Batholith, Grizzly Peak Cauldron, Mt Elbert Volcanotectonic Depression, Lincoln Gulch Stock, Sawmill Plug
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite, Quartz-Sericite, Argillic

References

MRDS	D010417
DEP	10013877
Reference	{Deposit:: CRUSON, M.G., 1973, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GRIZZLY PEAK CAULDRON COMPLEX, SAWATCH RANGE, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES PH.D. THESIS T-1538.}{Deposit:: HOWELL, J.V., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TWIN LAKES DISTRICT OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 17, 106 P.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.