Mine detail: King of the Carbonates Mine

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.15251, -105.4564
dep_id: 10012196
mrds_id: D007668
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Lead, Silver
Minor mineral: Copper
Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena
gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Pyrite
model: 82: Epithermal veins
alteration: Weak Argillization
ore_ctrl: Mineralized Veins, Fissures
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_unit: Silver Cliff Rhyolite Unit 1
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, Near Intersection Of Several Long Faults
tectonic: Central Cordilleran (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:: EMMONS, S.F., 1896, THE MINES OF CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS 17TH ANN. REPORT, PT 2, P. 405-472.
  • 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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