Mine detail: Gray Eagle Mine

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.10529, -105.34335
dep_id: 10012189
mrds_id: D007660
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
model: 82: Epithermal veins
alteration: Weak Argillization
ore_ctrl: Mineralized Faults And Fissures, Trachyte Dikes
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Andesite
arock_unit: Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
arock_type: Andesite
Structure: Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, North-Trending 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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