| Location: | La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 37.59723, -107.81675 |
| dep_id: | 10014199 |
| mrds_id: | D010867 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Gold |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Malachite |
| gangue: | Calcite |
| model: | 85: Polymetallic veins |
| ore_ctrl: | Fault Zone Cutting Limestones |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_unit: | Ouray Limestone;Leadville Limestone |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Electra Lake Gabbro;Monzonite Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Monzonite,Gabbro |
| Structure: | San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| disc_yr: | 1833 |
| discr: | Dolores Valley Mining Co. (Claimant) |
| References: |
- Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGUOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUAN COUNTIRES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 18.
- Deposit:: BARKER, FRED, 1969, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 644-A.
- Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, AND HOLE, A.D., 1910, DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGINEER MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 171.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1779
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