Mine detail: San Luis Mine

Previously called 'El PlomoRito SecoPlomo MinePlomo districtSan Luis deposit'

Location:	Costilla County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	37.25753, -105.34196
dep_id:	10142482
mas_id:	80230016
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Gold
Minor mineral:	Silver, Copper, Lead
Trace mineral:	Molybdenum, Zinc
Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	flat vein system
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Gold
gangue:	Hematite, Pyrite, Quartz, Chlorite, Fluorite, Sericite, Calcite
other_matl:	Goethite
work_type:	Surface
model:	{82: Epithermal veins}{281: Gold on flat faults}
alteration:	quartz + specular hematite veinlet and matrix filling, silica breccia matrix replacement, quartz-muscovite-pyrite replacements and veins, carbonate +/- chlorite replacements and veins
Reporter:	Buckingham, David A., Keller, John W.
hrock_unit:	brecciated gneiss and cataclasite
hrock_type:	Tectonite
arock_unit:	biotite gneiss, granitic gneiss, felsite dikes, andesite dikes
arock_type:	Biotite Gneiss,Granitic Gneiss,Felsic Volcanic Rock,Andesite
Structure:	prominent low-angle fault , numerous high-angle faults also
Year first produced:	1991
disc_yr:	1890
References:	Deposit:: AMERICAN MINES HANDBOOK 1993, P.32. Deposit:: EPLER, BILL. SAN LUIS GOLD - BM* NEW PRODUCER IS UP & RUNNING, PAYDIRT MAG. (ROCKY MT ED), MAY 1991, PP 4A-6A Deposit:: BATTLE MTN GOLD CO. 1994 ANNUAL REPORT, P.4. Deposit:: BATTLE MTN GOLD CO. 1995 ANNUAL REPORT, P.12. Deposit:: MINING RECORD. GOLD PRODUCTION FOR SAN LUIS PROJECTED AT}%%{Deposit:: 69,000 OZ. IN 1995. VOL106/N16. 4/19/95. P.7.}%%{Deposit:: BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO. 1995 FORM 10-K RPT, P8. Deposit:: BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO., 1996 FORM 10-K, PP. 4, 13. Deposit:: BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, P17. Deposit:: Benson, R.G., 1997, Detachment fault-related mineralization in a rift setting at the San Luis gold deposit and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Alamosa, Costilla, and Saguache Counties, Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, Ph.D. dissertation, 226 p. Deposit:: VAN DEIST, E.C., AND VAN DEIST, P.H., 1898, NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN SLOPE OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE IN COSTILLA COUNTY, COLO.: COLO, SCI. SOC. PROC., V. 5, P. 76-80. Deposit:: GUNTHER, C.G., 1905, THE GOLD DEPOSITS OF PLOMO, SAN LUIS PARK, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 1, P. 143-154. Deposit:: RITTER, E.A., 1934, REPORT ON THE RITO SECO MINING PROPERTY LOCATED IN COSTILLA COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO STATE PLAN. COMM. UNPUB. REPI. Deposit:: Benson, R.G., and Jones, D.M., 1994, Geology of the San Luis gold deposit: New developments, Costilla County, Colorado: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, SME Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 9 p. Development:: WEILKINSON, BRUCE, 1981, GOLD LODE STUDIED IN COSTILLA COUNTY: DENVER POST, 6/14/81, P. 46. Geology:: GOLD DEPOSIT, COSTILLA CO, COLORADO. GOLD0 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AIME OF THE GOLD0 SYMPOSIUM, SALT LAKE CITY, Geology:: UT, FEB. 26 - MAR 1, 1990; HAUSEN, D. M., ET AL, EDS., Geology:: 1990, PP. 83-91. Geology:: Wallace, A.R., and Soulliere, S.J., 1996, Geologic map of the Ojito Peak quadrangle, Costilla County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2312-B, scale 1:24,000. Production:: BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO. 1995 ANNUAL REPORT, P12.