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Larimer
Previously called 'EmilyPatented Claims MS 12768Monte Cristo'
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Location
Lat / long:
40.72276, -105.60838
Resource(M)
Primary:
Gold, Silver
Ore:
Pyrite
Discovery year:
1898
Production
Operation type:
Unknown
Deposit type:
Vein
Production size:
None
Development status:
Occurrence
Geology
Host rock:
Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
Host type:
Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:
Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry;Sherman Granite
Associated type:
Quartz Monzonite
Structure:
Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone
Tectonic:
Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References
MRDS
D010595
DEP
10014001
Reference
LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 285-286
Reporter
Schwochow, Stephen D.