Location: | La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 37.42779, -108.00592 |
dep_id: | 10014184 |
mrds_id: | D010849 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
Trace mineral: | Mercury |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Amalgam, Gold, Mercury, Sylvanite |
gangue: | Quartz |
model: | 85: Polymetallic veins |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Dolores Formation |
hrock_type: | Mudstone,Shale,Sandstone |
arock_unit: | Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry;Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite |
arock_type: | Diorite |
Structure: | San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome, Lewis Mtn Diorite Stock |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
Year first produced: | 1880 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1898 |
disc_yr: | 1880 |
discr: | William J. Wilson (Claimant) |
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, 162-163.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1722
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