Mine detail: Red Mountain Lode

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.68831, -105.38531
dep_id: 10013975
mrds_id: D010554
mas_id: 80690116
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Galena, Sphalerite
ore_ctrl: Ne-Trending Precambrian Shear Zone
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D., Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC), Wilson, Anna B.
hrock_unit: Quartzofeldspathic Mica Schist
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Pegmatite;Biotite-Muscovite Quartz Monzonite
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Skin Gulch Shear Zone, Poudre River Shear Zone, Stove Prairie Faul T, South Fork Antiform
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: ABBOTT, J.T., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG NARROWS QUADRANGLE, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1323.
  • Deposit:: TRAVER, W.M., JR., 1947, INVESTIGATIONS OF STRATEGIC MINERAL RESOURCES, IN VANDERWILT, J.W., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO STATE MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 476.
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