Mine detail: Unnamed Prospects

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Location

Lat / long: 37.71529, -107.71064

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Lead, Silver
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Limonite, Malachite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Ouray Limestone;Leadville Limestone
Host type:Limestone
Structure:San Juan Uplift, Needle Mtns Uplift, Unnamed Fault
Tectonic:Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:Fe Oxides, Cu Carbonates

References

MRDSD010890
DEP10094665
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, D.C., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE WEST NEEDLE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA AND THE BLM WEST NEEDLE CONTIGUOUS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, LA PLATA AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 35-83, P.8-9, 20-21.}{Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, AND OTHERS, 1905, DESCRIPTION OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE: USGS FOLIO 131.}{Deposit:: BARKER, FRED, 1969, PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NEEDLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 644-A.}
ReporterSchwochow, Stephen D.