| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.1614, -105.46446 |
| dep_id: | 10012347 |
| mrds_id: | D007927 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Perlite |
| Minor mineral: | Silver, Lead |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite |
| gangue: | Illite, Jarosite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | tabular, lensoid |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Strongly Argillized, White, Bleached |
| ore_ctrl: | Concentric Faults And Fractures |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
| hrock_unit: | Undivided Gneiss |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss |
| arock_unit: | Rim Breccia And Latite Flow |
| arock_type: | Tuff,Rhyolite,Latite |
| Structure: | Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, Concentric Faults Of Ben West Hill |
| 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:: COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES RECORDS, 1981
- 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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