Mine detail: Mountain Lily Mine

Previously called 'Timberline, MS 17241Patented Claims: Mountain Lily, MS 9421Darby, MS 12611Tip Top, MS 17276Gold Dollar, MS 17276Camp Bird, MS 19403Unpatented Claims: Mountain Lily ExtensionDarby ExtensionRamona'

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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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