Mine detail: Prodigal Mine

Previously called 'Unpatented Claims: ProdigalOpal Extension'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.73498, -105.60393
dep_id: 10087883
mrds_id: D010596
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Pyrite
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Sherman Granite;Laramide Intrusive Rocks-Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
hrock_type: Granite
arock_unit: Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphypy;Sherman Granite
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite
Structure: Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith, Poudre River Shear Zone, Elkhorn Creek Shear Zone
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • 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.
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