Mine detail: Treasure Hill Spar Claim

Previously called 'Patented Claims: Treasure Hill SparMs 1085'

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Location: Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.03694, -107.39507
dep_id: 10094703
mrds_id: D011622
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold, Copper
Minor mineral: Lead
Trace mineral: Antimony
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Galena
gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Sericite
ore_ctrl: Ne-Trending Fault/Fracture Transverse To Lake City Caldera Ring Fault But Subparallel To Trend Of Pre-Lake City Caldera Eureka Graben.
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Picayune Megabreccia Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff
hrock_type: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
arock_unit: Eureka Member Of Sapinero Mesa Tuff
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression, San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, Eureka Graben
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL, 478.
  • 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:: STEVEN, T.A., AND OTHERS, 1977, MINERAL RESOURCES OF STUDY AREAS CONTIGUOUS TO THE UNCOMPAHGRE PRIMITIVE AREA, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1391-C, P. 84-85, 110-111.
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 1085
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