Mine detail: Muldoon Mine

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

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Location

Lat / long:

37.44501, -108.00008

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Secondary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Antimony, Arsenic
Ore:	Gold, Proustite, Pyrargyrite
Gangue:	Barite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1949

Geology

Host rock:	Cutler Formation
Host type:	Mudstone
Associated rock:	Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)

References

MRDS	D010844
DEP	10087918
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.