Location: | Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 37.4253, -106.59949 |
dep_id: | 10014046 |
mrds_id: | D010662 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
Minor mineral: | Copper |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
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. |
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) |
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:: CARPER, A.F., 1914, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN, RIO GRANDE COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES THESIS T-464.
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