Mine detail: El Plomo Mine

Previously called 'PlomoRito Seco Mine'

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Location: Costilla County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.25392, -105.33
dep_id: 10087427
mrds_id: D006755
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Silver
Trace mineral: Lead
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena
gangue: Anglesite, Quartz
model: 82: Epithermal veins
alteration: Sericite, Chlorite
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Santa Fe Formation;Vallejo
hrock_type: Latite
arock_unit: Altered Lava Flow
arock_type: Latite
Structure: Culebra Massif, Rio Grande Rift Zone, Unnamed Normal Faults Associated With East Edge Of Rift
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
yr_lst_prd: 1946
References:
  • Deposit:: VAN DEIST, E.C., AND VAN DEIST, P.H., 1898, NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE IN COSTILLA COUNTY, COLO.: COLO, SCI. SOC. PROC., V. 5, P. 76-80.
  • Deposit:: GUNTHER, C.G., 1905, THE GOLD DEPOSITS OF PLOMO, SAN LUIS PARK, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 1, P. 143-154.
  • Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, COLO. MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 65.
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, W.I., 1935, BRIEF REPORT ON THE EAST BLACKMORE TRACT: COLO. STATE PLAN. COMM. UNPUB. REPT., 1 P.
  • Deposit:: RITTER, E.A., 1934, REPORT ON THE RITO SECO MINING PROPERTY LOCATED IN COSTILLA COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE PLAN. COMM. UNPUB. REPI.
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP 1-558.
  • Deposit:: WEILKINSON, BRUCE, 1981, GOLD LODE STUDIED IN COSTILLA COUNTY: DENVER POST, 6/14/81, P. 46.
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