Mine detail: Wet Mountains District

Previously called 'Greenhorn'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.9828, -105.09917

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver
Ore: Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Amphibolite
Associated rock:San Isabel Granite
Associated type:Migmatite,Granite
Structure:ENE-striking sulfide zones
Alteration processes:calc-silicate assemblage

References

DEP10311018
Reference{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, Colorado Geological Survey unpublished data}{Deposit:: Heinrich, E.W., 1981, Precambrian tungsten and copper-zinc skarn deposits of south-central Colorado: Colorado Geological survey Resource Series 21, 115 p.}{Deposit:: Sheridan, D.M., Raymond, W.H., Taylor, R.B., and Hasler, J.W., 1990, Metallogenic map of stratabound exhalative and related occurrences in Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1971, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Geology:: Raymond, W.H., Leiggi, P.A., and Sheridan, D.M., 1980, Sapphirine in Precambrian rocks associated with stratabound sulfide deposits, Custer County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1513, 22 p.}
ReporterKeller, John W.