Mine detail: Plata Verde Mine

Previously called 'Plate VerdePlata Verda'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.14418, -105.42474

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Discovery year:	1895

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Rhyolite Of Round Mountain And White Hills
Host type:	Rhyolite,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure:	Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, North-Trending Fault
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Weakly Argillized

References

MRDS	D007855
DEP	10012301
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:: FIELDMAN, D.W. AND CROWLEY, F.P., 1980, SILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SILVER CLIFF CALDERA, IN SILVER CLIFF VOLCANIC CENTER AND TALLAHASSEE CREEK URANIUM DEPOSITS: DENVER REGIONAL EXPLORATION GEOLOGISTS GUIDEBOOK, P. 1-14.}{Deposit:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B.