Mine detail: Prodigal Mine

Previously called 'Unpatented Claims: ProdigalOpal Extension'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.73498, -105.60393

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Ore:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Sherman Granite;Laramide Intrusive Rocks-Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphypy;Sherman Granite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010596
DEP	10087883
Reference	{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 286.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.