Mine detail: Monte Cristo Claim

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

MRDSD010595
DEP10014001
ReferenceLOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 285-286
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.