Mine detail: Plata Verde Mine

Location:	Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.14418, -105.42474
dep_id:	10012301
mrds_id:	D007855
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Silver
Operation type:	Surface
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
work_type:	Surface
model:	82: Epithermal veins
alteration:	Weakly Argillized
ore_ctrl:	Brecciated Rock, Fault, Volcanic Vent
Reporter:	Collins, Donna B.
hrock_unit:	Rhyolite Of Round Mountain And White Hills
hrock_type:	Rhyolite,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure:	Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, North-Trending Fault
tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
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:: 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.