Mine detail: Stephen Prospect

Previously called 'West Leviathan-Stephen-Leavenworth vein'

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.10862, -105.34363
dep_id: 10012310
mrds_id: D007866
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
model: 82: Epithermal veins
alteration: Weak Argillization
ore_ctrl: Mineralized Fissures; On Leavenworth Vein
Reporter: Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A.
hrock_type: Andesite
arock_unit: Rosita Andesite
arock_type: Andesite
Structure: Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Rosita Fault
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: SIEMS, P.L., 1967, VOLCANIC AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE ROSITA HILLS AND SILVER CLIFF DISTRICTS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES, D. SC. THESIS, T1042, 222 P.
  • Deposit:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081.
  • Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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