Mine detail: Small Hope Mine

Previously called 'Patented Claim: Small HopeMs 10349'

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Location: La Plata County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.43334, -108.04176
dep_id: 10101875
mrds_id: D010854
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold
Trace mineral: Copper, Tellurium
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
gangue: Calcite, Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite
hrock_type: Diorite
arock_unit: Nonporphyritic Rocks--Diorite;Porphyritic Rocks--Diorite-Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: San Juan Uplift, Four Corners Platform, La Plata Dome
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Year first produced: 1892
yr_lst_prd: 1919
disc_yr: 1887
References:
  • Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., AND OTHERS, 1949, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LA PLATA DISTRICT, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 219, P. 73-76, 165-167.
  • Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEY MS 10349
  • Production:: ECKEL AND OTHERS, 1949, P. 165 (AS COMPILED FROM USGS AND USBM RECORDS)
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