Location: | La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 37.42807, -108.04426 |
dep_id: | 10014181 |
mrds_id: | D010843 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
Trace mineral: | Tellurium |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Pyrite, Sylvanite |
gangue: | Chalcedony, Chlorite, Kaolinite, Quartz |
work_type: | Underground |
model: | 85: Polymetallic veins |
alteration: | Kaolinitization, Chloritization |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite |
hrock_type: | Diorite |
arock_unit: | Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite;Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry |
arock_type: | Diorite |
Structure: | San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
Year first produced: | 1895 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1942 |
disc_yr: | 1895 |
discr: | Daniel Shively And Owen F. Boyle (Mountain Lily Claimants) |
References: |
- Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-76, 154-155.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 9421, 12611, 17241, 17276, 19403
- Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 154 (AS COMPILED FROM USGS AND USBM RECORDS); COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.
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