| Lat / long: | 38.1614, -105.46446 |
| Primary: | Perlite |
| Secondary: | Silver, Lead |
| Ore: | Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite |
| Gangue: | Illite, Jarosite, Quartz |
| Orebody form: | tabular, lensoid |
| Discovery year: | 1895 |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| Host rock: | Undivided Gneiss |
| Host type: | Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Rim Breccia And Latite Flow |
| Associated 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) |
| Alteration processes: | Strongly Argillized, White, Bleached |
| MRDS | D007927 |
| DEP | 10012347 |
| Reference | {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.} |
| Reporter | Collins, Donna B. |