Gold Quartz Mine (Wells Mine; Patented Claim: Red Cloud; MS 622; Gold Quartz Nos. 1-6; Unpatented Claim: Gold Quartz), Lake City District (Lake District), Hinsdale Co., Colorado, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 38° 0' 9'' North , 107° 17' 16'' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 38.00250,-107.28778 |
| Köppen climate type: | Dfc : Subarctic climate |
REF:Deposit:: IRVING, J.D., AND BANCROFT, HOWLAND, 1911, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 478.
Deposit:: LIPMAN, P.W., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE LAKE CITY CALDERA AREA, WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP
Commodities (Major) - Gold, Copper, Silver; (Minor) - Lead; (Trace) - Zinc, Tellurium, Antimony
Deposit Type: Vein
Development Status: Past Producer
Structure: San Juan-Uncompahgre Calderas, Lake City Caldera, San Juan Volcanic Field, San Juan Depression
Host Rock: Rhyolite, Quartz Latite
Tectonic Structure: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Commodity List
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16 valid minerals.
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| Miocene - Eocene 5.333 - 56 Ma ID: 3190650 | Cenozoic volcanic rocks Age: Cenozoic (5.333 - 56 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: San Juan Mountains Comments: Southern Rocky Mountains Lithology: Intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
| Oligocene 23.03 - 33.9 Ma ID: 2768559 | Ash-flow tuff of main volcanic sequence Age: Oligocene (23.03 - 33.9 Ma) Description: Includes many named units Lithology: Major:{volcanic} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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