| Location: | Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.0175, -107.47035 |
| dep_id: | 10087976 |
| mrds_id: | D011603 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc |
| Minor mineral: | Gold |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Chlorite, Quartz |
| alteration: | Chloritization |
| ore_ctrl: | Nw-Trending Fault/Fracture Possibly Related To Lake City Caldera Formation And Monzonite Intrusion |
| Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
| hrock_type: | Quartz Latite |
| arock_unit: | Eureka Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff;Biotite-Quartz Latite Of Burns Member Of Silverton Volcanics;Intrusive Rocks--Monzonite Porphyry Zr Fiss. Track 23.3;Intrusive Rocks--Rhyolite |
| arock_type: | Monzonite,Rhyolite,Quartz Latite |
| Structure: | San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Eureka Graben |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1954 |
| disc_yr: | 1882 |
| discr: | Iowa State Mining Company (Claimant) |
| References: |
- Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 478, P. 77-78.
- Deposit:: SLACK, J.F., 1980, MULTISTAGE VEIN ORES OF THE LAKE CITY DISTRICT, WESTERN SAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 75, NO. 7, P. 963-991.
- Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-962.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 1148, 1149, 1559
- Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.
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