| Location: | Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.01361, -107.48035 |
| dep_id: | 10014718 |
| mrds_id: | D011610 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Lead, Copper |
| Trace mineral: | Zinc, Antimony, Tellurium |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Sylvanite |
| gangue: | Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Kaolinite, Quartz |
| ore_ctrl: | Nnw-Trending Fault/Fracture Transverse To Trend Of Pre-Lake City Caldera Eureka Graben. Possible Ne-Trending Fault/Fracture Parallel To Trend Of Eureka Graben |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_type: | Monzonite,Quartz Latite |
| arock_unit: | Eureka Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff;Biotite-Quartz Latite Of Burns Member Of Silverton Volcanics;Intrusive Rocks--Monzonite Porphyry Zr Fiss. Track 23.3 |
| arock_type: | Monzonite,Rhyolite,Quartz Latite |
| Structure: | San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Eureka Graben |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1935 |
| disc_yr: | 1883 |
| discr: | A. Guioneau |
| References: |
- Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 478, P. 72-74
- Deposit:: SLACK, J.F., 1980, MULTISTAGE VEIN ORES OF THE LAKE CITY DISTRICT, WESTERN SAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 75, NO. 7, P. 963-991.
- Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 12227
- Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPT.
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