| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.11001, -105.32001 |
| dep_id: | 10012288 |
| mrds_id: | D007839 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Lead |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Galena |
| gangue: | Barite |
| orebody_fm: | vein |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Weak Argillization |
| ore_ctrl: | California Fault; Contact Between Trachyte And Gneiss |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A. |
| hrock_type: | Trachyte |
| arock_unit: | Trachyte Of Game Ridge;Undivided Gneiss; Dark, Augite-Gneiss |
| arock_type: | Trachyte |
| Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, California Fault Separates Trachyte And Gneiss |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| yfp_ba: | < |
| Year first produced: | 1883 |
| dy_ba: | < |
| disc_yr: | 1883 |
| 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 MAP I-1081.
- Deposit:: Emmons, S.F., 1896, The mines of Custer County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey 17th Annual Report, Pt. 2, pp. 405-472.
- Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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