Mine detail: El Plomo District

Previously called 'Rito Seco districtSan Luis'

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Location: Costilla County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.25447, -105.33945
dep_id: 10311029
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Silver, Lead, Copper
Trace mineral: Zinc, Molybdenum
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
model: {82: Epithermal veins}{281: Gold on flat faults}
Reporter: Keller, John W.
References:
  • 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:: Vanderwilt, J.W., 1947, Mineral resources of Colorado: State of Colorado Mineral Resources Board, 547 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:: 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.
  • Deposit:: GUNTHER, C.G., 1905, THE GOLD DEPOSITS OF PLOMO, SAN LUIS PARK, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 1, P. 143-154.
  • Development:: WEILKINSON, BRUCE, 1981, GOLD LODE STUDIED IN COSTILLA COUNTY: DENVER POST, 6/14/81, P. 46.
  • Development:: EPLER, BILL. SAN LUIS GOLD - BM* NEW PRODUCER IS UP & RUNNING, PAYDIRT MAG. (ROCKY MT ED), MAY 1991, PP 4A-6A
  • 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.
  • Geology:: Kirkham, R.M., Shaver, K.C., Lindsay, N.R., and Wallace, A.R., 2003, Geologic map of the Taylor Ranch quadrangle, Costilla County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-15, scale 1:24,000, 30 p.
  • Geology:: GOLD DEPOSIT, COSTILLA CO, COLORADO. GOLD*0 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AIME OF THE GOLD*0 SYMPOSIUM, SALT LAKE CITY,
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