Mine detail: Sunrise Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: SunriseMs 16001'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.40193, -108.92568

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Bornite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Limonite
Discovery year:	1902

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Wingate Sandstone
Host type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Paradox Basin Fold And Fault Belt, Paradox Anticline, Paradox Valley Graben, Unnamed Fault
Tectonic:	Colorado Platform
Alteration processes:	Oxidation Of Sulfides To Carbonates And Oxides

References

MRDS	D010957
DEP	10087937
Reference	{Deposit:: COFFIN, R.C., 1921, RADIUM, URANIUM, AND VANADIUM DEPOSITS FO SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: CGS BULL. 16, P. 220.}{Deposit:: SHOEMAKER, E.M., 19568 GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ROC CREEK QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-83.}{Deposit:: FISCHER, R.P., 1936, PECULIAR HYDROTHERMAL COPPER-BEARING VEINS OF THE NORTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 6, P. 588-593.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 16001}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.