Mine detail: Bitteroot Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 37.61362, -107.74564

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite, Limonite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1925

Geology

Host rock:Twilight Gneiss
Host type:Gneiss
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Granite
Structure:San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Fe Oxidation

References

MRDSD010865
DEP10014198
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS SUTDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGUOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 6-7, 36-39.}{Deposit:: BARKER, FRED, 1969,PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO; USGS PROF. PAPER 644-A.}{Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, AND OTHERS, 1905, DESCRIPTION OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE, COLORADO; USGS FOLIO 131.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.