| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.10779, -105.34807 |
| dep_id: | 10012192 |
| mrds_id: | D007664 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Lead, Iron |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Silver, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite |
| gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Clay |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Weakly Argillized, Strongly Argillized In Places |
| ore_ctrl: | On Pioneer Vein |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A. |
| hrock_type: | Andesite |
| arock_unit: | Rosita Andesite |
| arock_type: | Andesite |
| Structure: | Rosita Cauldron And Crater Complex, North-Trending Fissures Dipping 60 To 70 Degrees East; Trachyte Dike Nearby |
| tectonic: | Wet Mountains |
| dy_ba: | < |
| disc_yr: | 1895 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: CROSS, WHITMAN, 1896, GEOLOGY OF SILVER CLIFF AND THE ROSITA HILLS, COLORADO: USGS 17TH ANN. REPORT, PT 2, P. 263-403.
- 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, T1042, 222 P.
- 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- Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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