Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.11112, -105.33363 |
dep_id: | 10012311 |
mrds_id: | D007867 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Silver |
Trace mineral: | Iron |
Operation type: | Underground |
Deposit type: | Vein |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Argentite, Pyrite, Galena, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite |
gangue: | Barite, Quartz |
model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
alteration: | No Significant Alteration |
ore_ctrl: | Trachyte Contact With Andesite; Twenty-Six Fault Fissure Complex |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte |
hrock_type: | Andesite,Trachyte |
Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Twenty-Six Fault Runs East-West |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
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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