| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.11001, -105.34835 |
| dep_id: | 10012435 |
| mrds_id: | D008064 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Silver, Lead |
| Minor mineral: | Copper |
| Trace mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Underground |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite |
| gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Clay |
| orebody_fm: | vein |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
| alteration: | Strongly Argillized |
| ore_ctrl: | On Humboldt-Pocahontas Vein/Fracture System; Mineralized Fissures |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A. |
| 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, Other Faults |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
| Year first produced: | 1874 |
| disc_yr: | 1874 |
| 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.N., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081, 1:24,000.
- Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
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