Mine detail: Durango Girl Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claims: Durango Boy, MS 16438Durango Girl, MS 16525New Hope, MS 16525'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.41723, -107.9987

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Copper, Mercury, Tellurium, Vanadium, Antimony
Ore:	Cinnabar, Coloradoite, Gold, Hessite, Petzite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Dickite, Quartz, Roscoelite
Discovery year:	1893

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1893
Last production ended:	1939

Geology

Host rock:	Cutler Formation
Host type:	Diorite,Shale,Sandstone
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Silicification

References

MRDS	D010816
DEP	10014162
Reference	{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-76, 115-117.}{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., 1905, THE NEGLECTED MINE AND NEAR-BY PROPERTIES, DURANGO QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 260, P. 121-127.}{Deposit:: VANDERBERGE, J.H., 1908, REPORT OF THE DURANGO GIRL, LA PLATA COUNTY: UNPUB. ENG. REPT., 7 P.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS 16438, 16525}{Deposit:: RITTER, E.A., 1924?, REPORT ON THE DURANGO GIRL MINE OF THE DURANGO MINING AND MILLING COMPANY CONTAINED IN A PROSPECTUS OF THE COMPANY, LA PLATA COUNTY: UNPUB. ENG. REPT., 5 P.}{Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 115 (AS COMPILED FROM COMPANY, USGS, AND USBM RECORDS); RITTER, 1924?}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.