Mine detail: Transylvania Tunnel

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.10557, -105.33779
dep_id: 10012314
mrds_id: D007870
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Minor mineral: Lead, Zinc
Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Kaolin
work_type: Underground
alteration: Argillization
ore_ctrl: Mineralized Fissures Along Extension Of Rosita Fault, Trachyte Body
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
hrock_type: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Andesite
arock_unit: Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
arock_type: Trachyte,Andesite
Structure: Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Rosita Fault, Ne-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:: 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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