Mine detail: Sodom Mine

Previously called 'Dixie GroupUnpatented Claims: Dixie Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6Shiny Lo DeMonzoniteSpring LoadStandardBasic Load'

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Location: Larimer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.72942, -105.64171
dep_id: 10087884
mrds_id: D010598
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Minor mineral: Copper, Lead, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Metamorphic Rocks--Felsic And Hornblendic Gneisses;Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Gneisses
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Laramide Intrusive Rocks--Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
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:
  • LOVERING, T.S., AND GODDARD, E.N., 1950, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS O F THE FRONT RANGE, COLOREDO: USGS PROF. PAPER 223, P. 285-286
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