Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver, Copper
SecondaryLead
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model85: Polymetallic veins281: Gold on flat faults
Deposit sizeN
WorkingsSurface
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
GangueQuartz, Epidote, Specularite
Geology
Host rockGneiss · Migmatitic Gneiss
StructureSangre De Cristo Fault, Sawatch Arch, Sangre De Cristo Range, Rio Grande Rift
Tectonic settingCentral Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10013991
MRDS IDD010578
Alternate namesTriple-T Mine
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.11862, -105.78558
References
SCOTT, G.R., AND OTHERS, 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1X2 QUADR ANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES, 1958, SUMMARY OF MINERAL INDUSTRY ACTIV ITIES IN COLORADO: COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. REPT.COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPT.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.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 MLA 65-83, 190 p.