Mine detail: Colorado Deposit

Previously called 'Fondaway Canyon MineNBMG Sample Sites 3302, 3303.'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.80407, -118.20403

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony, Mercury, Barium-Barite, Tungsten
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Cinnabar, Pyrite, Quartz, Scheelite, Stibnite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Unknown;Unknown;Unknown;Unknown
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Unknown
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Ne-Trending Faults
Alteration processes:	Silicification

References

MRDS	M242934
DEP	10111472
Reference	{Deposit:: TENNECO MINERALS COMPANY, 1989, DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE TENNECO MINERALS COMPANY FONDAWAY CANYON PROJECT}{Production:: 1978-1980 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION: TENNECO MINERALS COMPANY, 1989, DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE TENNECO MINERALS COMPANY FONDAWAY CANYON PROJECT.}{Reserve-Resource:: BONHAM, H.F., 1986}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.)