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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