Mine detail: Century Mine

Previously called 'MS 1097.5Patented Claim: CenturyCentury vein'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.44811, -108.06292

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Gangue: Barite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1882

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1896

Geology

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

References

MRDSD010808
MAS80830022
DEP10014157
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}
ReporterWilson, Anna B., Intermountain Field Operations Center, Schwochow, Stephen D.