Mine detail: Muldoon Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: Muldoon, MS 2356Unpatented Claims: IndependenceCumberland'

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Location: La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.44501, -108.00008
dep_id: 10087918
mrds_id: D010844
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Minor mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Antimony, Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Gold, Proustite, Pyrargyrite
gangue: Barite, Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Cutler Formation
hrock_type: Mudstone
arock_unit: Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
yr_lst_prd: 1949
References:
  • Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-74, 155-156.
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 2356
  • Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
  • Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 156 (AS COMPILED FROM USGS AND USBM RECORDS); COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.
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