| Lat / long: | 39.66691, -117.45894 |
| Primary: | Silver, Gold |
| Secondary: | Manganese |
| Tertiary: | Copper, Lead |
| Ore: | Gold, Galena, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Wad |
| Gangue: | Quartz, Pyrite |
| Orebody form: | TABULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1994 |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Deposit type: | SEDIMENT-HOSTED, volcanic-hosted, DISSEMINATED |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| Host rock: | Augusta Mountain Formation |
| Host type: | Limestone,Siltstone,Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Structure: | Thin, discontinuous veneers and lenses of gold-bearing jasperoid are exposed along a north-south volcanic/limestone contact for a strike length of 12,000 feet. |
| Alteration processes: | Volcanic rocks are locally silicified along the volcanic/limestone contact and jasperoid has formed along the volcanic/limestone contact for a strike length of more than two miles. |
| DEP | 10310507 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: Stewart and others, 1977}{Deposit:: The Denver Mining Record, 11/30/94}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-95}{Deposit:: Quest International, 1997}{Deposit:: The Northern Miner, 9/15/97.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.} |
| Reporter | LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G. |