| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.12751, -105.32418 |
| dep_id: | 10012190 |
| mrds_id: | D007661 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | pipe |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| orebody_fm: | breccia pipe |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Strongly Argillized |
| conc_proc: | Probably Concentric Mineralized Shells Around Breccia Boulders |
| ore_ctrl: | On Trachyte Boundary Within Breccia Pipe |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A. |
| hrock_type: | Andesite |
| arock_unit: | Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte |
| arock_type: | Andesite |
| Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Breccia Pipe |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| disc_yr: | 1881 |
| 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.
- Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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