Mine detail: Gold King-Swamp Angel Group

Previously called 'Patented Claims: Gold King, MS 4880Swamp Angel, MS 4881'

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Location: La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.4439, -107.96314
dep_id: 10014169
mrds_id: D010825
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Copper, Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Copper, Gold, Mercury
gangue: Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Cutler Formation
hrock_type: Mudstone,Sandstone
arock_unit: Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 123, 173
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