| Lat / long: | 38.1639, -105.44751 |
| Primary: | Silver |
| Secondary: | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold |
| Tertiary: | Iron |
| Ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Magnetite, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
| Gangue: | Barite, Fluorite, Quartz |
| Discovery year: | 1895 |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| First production started: | 1880 |
| Last production ended: | 1964 |
| Host rock: | Undivided Gneiss |
| Host type: | Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Undivided Silver Cliff Rhyolite |
| Associated type: | Rhyolite |
| Structure: | Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, On Outermost West-Trending Ring Fault With Almost Vertical Dip |
| Tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| Alteration processes: | Ferruginous Zone; Oxidation |
| MRDS | D007850 |
| DEP | 10012297 |
| Reference | {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 MAP I-1081.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES INSPECTION RECORDS} |
| Reporter | Collins, Donna B. |