| Location: | Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 37.42585, -106.59282 |
| dep_id: | 10014044 |
| mrds_id: | D010660 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver, Gold, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Lead |
| Trace mineral: | Zinc |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Covellite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| model: | 154: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au |
| alteration: | Quartz-Alunite Solfataric Alteration |
| ore_ctrl: | Quartz-Alunite Solfataric Replacement Bodies Following Nw-Trending Fractures Near Sw Margin Of South Mountain Feeder Conduit |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. (Hasler, J. William), Berger, Mary A. |
| hrock_unit: | Quartz Latite Of South Mountain;Summitville Andesite |
| hrock_type: | Quartz Latite |
| arock_unit: | Quartz Latite Of South Mountain;Summitville Andesite |
| arock_type: | Quartz Latite,Andesite |
| Structure: | San Juan Volcanic Field, Platoro Caldera, Summitville Caldera, Summitville Fault, South Mountain Dome |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1971 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: PATTON, H.B., 1917, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PLATORO-SUMMITVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO: CGS BULL. 13.
- Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., AND RATTE, J.C., 1960, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SUMMITVILLE DISTRICT, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 343
- Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PLATORO CALDERA AREA, SOUTHEASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-828.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
- Deposit:: MINING ENGINEERING, JULY 1990.
- Deposit:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 1988, PP. 46.
- Deposit:: STOFFREGEN, R.E., 1987, GENESIS OF ACID-SULPHATE ALTERATION AND AU-CU-AG MINERALIZATION AT SUMMITVILLE, COLORADO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82, PP. 1575, 1591.
- Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS. ; MINING ENGINEERING, JULY 1990.; ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 1988. DENVER POST, MAY 14, 1990.
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