| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.12834, -105.34029 |
| dep_id: | 10012188 |
| mrds_id: | D007658 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Gold |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Pyrite |
| gangue: | Quartz |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 154: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au |
| alteration: | Strongly Argillized |
| ore_ctrl: | Mineralized Fissures, Many Small Faults |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_type: | Trachyandesite |
| arock_unit: | Bunker Trachyandesite;San Isabel Gneiss |
| arock_type: | Trachyandesite |
| Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Ring Fault, Small Faults |
| 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:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAPS I-1081.
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