Lat / long: | 37.44811, -108.06292 |
Primary: | Gold, Silver |
Gangue: | Barite, Quartz |
Discovery year: | 1882 |
Operation type: | Underground |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | Small |
Development status: | Past Producer |
Last production ended: | 1896 |
Host rock: | Junction Creek Sandstone |
Host type: | Sandstone |
Associated rock: | Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry;Nonporphyritic Rocks--Monzonite |
Associated type: | Monzonite,Diorite |
Structure: | San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome, Spiller Peak-Mt Moss Stock |
Tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
Alteration processes: | Oxidation Of Pyrite To Limonite |
MRDS | D010808 |
MAS | 80830022 |
DEP | 10014157 |
Reference | {Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER P. 67-68, 99-101.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1097.5} |
Reporter | Wilson, Anna B., Intermountain Field Operations Center, Schwochow, Stephen D. |