| Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 38.21862, -105.24724 |
| dep_id: | 10012903 |
| mrds_id: | D008909 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Lead |
| Minor mineral: | Silver, Gold |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Phosgenite, Cerussite |
| gangue: | Calcite, Chalcedony, Chert, Limonite, Manganese Ox-Hydrous |
| orebody_fm: | LENS |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| model: | 30: Thorium-rare-earth veins |
| alteration: | Extensive Oxidation, Iron Staining |
| conc_proc: | Supergene? |
| ore_ctrl: | Fault/Shear Zones; Ilse Fault |
| Reporter: | Collins, Donna B., Spanksi, Gregory T. |
| hrock_unit: | Undivided Gneiss |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss |
| arock_unit: | Syenite Dike;Diorite Dike |
| arock_type: | Syenite,Diorite |
| Structure: | Wet Mountains, Ilse Fault; Mine Near Intersection Of Ilse And Another Nw-Trending Fault |
| tectonic: | Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mountains |
| Year first produced: | 1884 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1943 |
| disc_yr: | 1879 |
| discr: | Mr. Rain; Located Originally By Rain And Spaulding |
| References: |
- Deposit:: HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37
- Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B., 1961, MINERALS OF COLORADO, A 100-YEAR RECORD: USGS BULLETIN 1114, P. 96
- Deposit:: VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 69
- Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000
- Deposit:: COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES, 1982, INSPECTION RECORDS 1921-1942.
- Production:: VANDERWILT, 1947; COLORADO DIVISION MINES, 1982;
- Reserve-Resource:: COLORADO DIVISION MINES, INSPECTION RECORDS.
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