Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.10445, -105.33307 |
dep_id: | 10012439 |
mrds_id: | D008072 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Silver, Lead |
Minor mineral: | Copper |
Trace mineral: | Iron |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite |
gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Clay |
work_type: | Underground |
model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
alteration: | Weakly Argillized |
ore_ctrl: | Humboldt-Pocahontas Vein |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_type: | Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate) |
arock_unit: | Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte |
arock_type: | Trachyte,Andesite |
Structure: | Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Rosita Fault |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
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.
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