Mine detail: Courthouse vein system

Previously called 'Dividend/Eagle Plume aditHawkins aditGoodman claimsCoronado GroupMcMillan Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.58641, -105.48363

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Tellurium
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

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Gabbro,Tonalite
Associated type:	Gabbro,Rhyolite

References

DEP	10311060
Reference	{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U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 32-88, 36 p.}{Names:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Reserve-Resource:: Scott, 1986.}
Reporter	Beach, Richard A.