Mine detail: Hidden Treasure Mine

Previously called 'Hot Stuff No. 2Invincible, MS 13478Protector, MS 13478Hard To Beat, MS 14988Winner, MS 14988Hard Tack, MS 14988Steele, MS 15157Otis, MS 15157Albany, MS 15157Windsor, MS 15157Metropole, MS 15157Dutch Mike
*onnellHidden Treasure Tunnel SiteManagerMccombe No. 2, MS 15157Unpatented Claims: Hot StuffPatented Claims: Hidden Treasure, MS 342Don Quixote, MS 12572Crystal, MS 13193'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.02556, -107.36869

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold
Tertiary:	Zinc, Antimony, Manganese
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Silver, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Dickite, Fluorite, Gypsum, Kaolinite, Magnetite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Sericite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
Discovery year:	1880

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1897
Last production ended:	1922

Geology

Host rock:	Picayune Megabreccia Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff
Host type:	Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Eureka Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff;Intrusive Rocks--Porphyro-Aphanitic Rocks
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, Wallrock Silicification; Serictization; Pyritization
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D011612
DEP	10014721
Reference	{Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 478, P. 87-95.}{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:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.}{Deposit:: BROWN, W.H., 1926, THE MINERAL ZONES OF THE WHITE CROSS DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORING DEPOSITS IN HINSDALE COUNTY, COLORADO: MINES MAG., V. 15, NO. 11, P. 5-15.}{Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., 1905, ORE DEPOSITS IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 260 P. 78-84.}{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:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOP REPTS.}{Deposit:: BLM MINER SURVEYS MS 342, 12572, 13193, 13478, 14988, 15157}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.