| Location: | Conejos County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 37.34946, -106.53671 |
| dep_id: | 10014103 |
| mrds_id: | D010733 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Copper, Lead |
| Trace mineral: | Antimony, Molybdenum, Zinc |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcocite, Covellite, Digenite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Marcasite, Miargyrite, Molybdenite, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite, Zinkenite |
| gangue: | Anhydrite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Quartz |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 154: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au |
| alteration: | All Wallrock Is Silicified To Some Extent Within Vein And Up To 6.5 Ft Into Footwall And Up To 16.5 Ft Into Hanging Wall. In Hanging Wall Zones, All Material Within 1.6 Ft Of Vein Is Completely Silicified. Sericite Progressivly Prominent At 1.6 To 6.5 Ft And Dominant From 6.5 To 26 Ft. At 13 Ft, Kaolinite Prominent. At 26 Ft, Rock Shows Regional Argillization. |
| ore_ctrl: | Wider, Steeper Portions Of Fault Zone Next To Cornwall Resurgent Block |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | La Jara Canyon Member Of Treasure Mountain Tuff |
| hrock_type: | Quartz Latite |
| arock_unit: | La Jara Canyon Member Of Treasure Mountain Tuff |
| arock_type: | Quartz Latite |
| Structure: | San Juan Volcanic Field, Platoro Caldera, Summitville Caldera, Platoro Fault Zone, Cornwall Block |
| 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:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PLATORO CALDERA AREA, SOUTHEASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-828.
- Deposit:: BIRD, W.H., 1972, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE PLATORO CALDERA COMPLEX, SOUTHEAST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: MTN. GEOLOGIST, V. 9, NO. 4, P. 379-387.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY 6606
- Deposit:: BIRD, W.H., 1973, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE PLATORO CALDERA COMPLEX AND ITS RELATED MINERAL DEPOSITS, SOUTHEAST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES THESIS T-1440.
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