| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.11973, -105.33335 |
| dep_id: | 10012309 |
| mrds_id: | D007865 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver, Aluminum |
| Trace mineral: | Gold |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Pyrite |
| gangue: | Alunite, Diaspore, Quartz |
| model: | 154: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au |
| alteration: | Weak Argillization |
| ore_ctrl: | Faults, Mineralized Fissures |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_type: | Trachyte |
| arock_unit: | Game Ridge Trachyte; Possibly Rosita Andesite Influence;Rhyolite Of Rosita Volcano (Dike) |
| arock_type: | Rhyolite,Trachyte |
| Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Faults, Volcanic Vent, Rhyolite Dike |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (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 MAP I-1081.
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