Mine detail: Courthouse vein system

Location:	Huerfano County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	37.58641, -105.48363
dep_id:	10311060
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Gold, Silver
Minor mineral:	Tungsten
Trace mineral:	Tellurium
Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Jalpaite, Melonite, Pearceite, Polybasite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Sylvanite, Tetrahedrite, Wolframite
gangue:	Ankerite, Barite, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Orthoclase, Magnetite, Muscovite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Sericite
model:	82: Epithermal veins
Reporter:	Beach, Richard A.
hrock_type:	Gabbro,Tonalite
arock_type:	Gabbro,Rhyolite
References:	Deposit:: Ellis, C.E., Hannigan, B.J., and Thompson, J.R., 1983, Mineral investigation of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Saguache Counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 65-83, 190 p. Deposit:: Scott, D. C., 1986, Gold, silver, and tungsten resources of the Courthouse vein system, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Study Area, Alamosa and Huerfano counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 52-86, 28 p. Deposit:: Ellis, C. E., 1988, Mineralogy and configuration of the Courthouse vein system, Alamosa, Costilla, and Huerfano counties, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 32-88, 36 p. Names:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey. Reserve-Resource:: Scott, 1986.