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

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.