Location: | La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 37.35473, -108.08009 |
dep_id: | 10101872 |
mrds_id: | D010829 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Silver, Gold |
Minor mineral: | Copper, Lead |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Chalcopyrite, Gold |
gangue: | Quartz |
work_type: | Underground |
model: | 85: Polymetallic veins |
alteration: | Alteration Of Cu Sulfide |
Reporter: | Schwochow, Stephen D. |
hrock_unit: | Entrada Sandstone;Pony Express Limestone Member Of Wanakah Formation |
hrock_type: | Sandstone,Limestone |
arock_unit: | Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry |
arock_type: | Diorite |
Structure: | San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome, May Day-Idaho Fault System |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
Year first produced: | 1875 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1932 |
disc_yr: | 1875 |
References: |
- Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 69-70, 132, PL. 23.
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS.
- Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 88, 91, 19879
- Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 132 (AS COMPILED FROM USBM RECORDS)
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