Mine detail: Sally Bowman Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claims: Sallie Bowman, MS 11511Morse, MS 11512'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.64445, -107.68786

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Limonite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1897

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Irving Formation
Host type:Gneiss
Associated rock:Eolus Granite;Tenmile Granite
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Granite
Structure:San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift, Eolus Batholith, Tenmile Stock
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDSD010888
DEP10014216
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 9, 19-20.}{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.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 11511, 11512}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.