Mine detail: Poverty Mountain Road Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

38.40557, -105.47697

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Silver
Gangue:	Biotite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Migmatite Gneiss
Host type:	Schist,Gneiss
Associated type:	Granodiorite,Lamprophyre
Structure:	Northern Wet Mountains, Canon City Embayment, Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field, Shear Zone, Nw-Trending Fault And Shear Zones
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mountains)
Alteration processes:	Altered Biotite Gneisses; Kaolinization

References

MRDS	D009617
DEP	10087780
Reference	{Deposit:: COKER, R. J., 1982, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ARKANSAS CANYON PLANNING UNIT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE FORMER GRAPE CREEK WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS AND THE MCINTYRE HILLS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA: US BLM MINERAL REPORT, P. 94-95}{Deposit:: TAYLOR, R. B., SCOTT, G. R., WOBUS, R. A., AND EPIS, R. C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROYAL GORGE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO USGS MAP I-869, 1: 62,500.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.