Mine detail: Unnamed Prospects

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Location

Lat / long:

37.70168, -107.76397

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Lead, Silver
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Epidote, Hematite, Limonite, Malachite

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Ouray Limestone;Leadville Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Quartz Trachyte
Associated type:	Trachyte
Structure:	San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift, Unnamed Faults, Unnamed Syncline
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Fe Oxides, Cu Carbonate

References

MRDS	D010889
DEP	10014217
Reference	{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 COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P. 21.}{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.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.