Mine detail: Gold Quartz Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: Red Cloud, MS 622Unpatented Claim: Gold QuartzGold Quartz Nos. 1-6'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.00251, -107.28841

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Copper
Secondary:	Lead
Tertiary:	Antimony, Zinc, Tellurium
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Wurtzite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1951

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Associated rock:	Fish Canyon Tuff;Carpenter Ridge Tuff
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Structure:	San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Silicification

References

MRDS	D011558
DEP	10014673
Reference	{Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 478.}{Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.}{Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., AND OTHERS, 1976, MULTIPLE AGES OF MID-TERTIARY MINERALIZATION AND ALTERATION IN THE WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 71, NO. 3, P. 571-588.}{Deposit:: SLACK, J.F., 1980, MULTISTAGE VEIN ORES OF THE LAKE CITY DISTRICT, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 75, NO. 7, P. 963-991.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 622}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT. (1948); USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS (1945-1951)}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.