Mine detail: Snowstrom Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: MarthaMs 1721'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.44223, -108.01204

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony
Ore:	Gold, Proustite, Pyrargyrite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1878

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1878
Last production ended:	1888

Geology

Host rock:	Cutler Formation;Dolores Formation
Host type:	Mudstone,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)

References

MRDS	D010855
DEP	10014189
Reference	{Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219. P. 73-74, 167-168.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1721}{Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 167 (AS COMPILED FROM PRIVATE ENGINEERING REPT. AND FROM REPT. OF DIRECTOR OF MINE)}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.