| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.15445, -105.45196 |
| dep_id: | 10012179 |
| mrds_id: | D007647 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Gold, Zinc, Lead |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Smithsonite, Tetrahedrite, Sphalerite, Pyrite |
| gangue: | Quartz, Calcite |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Weak Argillization |
| conc_proc: | Supergene, Vein Oxidized To 75 Ft Depth |
| ore_ctrl: | Ring Fault |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_type: | Rhyolite |
| arock_unit: | Silver Cliff Rhyolite Undivided |
| arock_type: | Rhyolite |
| Structure: | Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn. Valley, West-Trending, Vertical Or Steeply Dipping To North Ring Fault |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| disc_yr: | 1882 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, 1896, GEOLOGY OF SILVER CLIFF AND THE ROSITA HILLS, COLORADO: USGS 17TH ANN. REPORT, PT 2, P. 263-403.
- Deposit:: FIELDMAN, D.W. AND CROWLEY, F.P., 1980, SILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SILVER CLIFF CALDERA, IN SILVER CLIFF VOLCANIC CENTER AND TALLAHASSEE CREEK URANIUM DEPOSITS: DENVER REGIONAL EXPLORATION GEOLOGISTS GUIDEBOOK, P. 1-14.
- Deposit:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAPS I-1081.
- Deposit:: SIEMS, P.L., 1967, VOLCANIC AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE ROSITA HILLS AND SILVER CLIFF DISTRICTS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES, D. SC. THESIS, T 1042, 222 P.
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