Mine detail: Cliffdweller Mine

Previously called 'Isabella, MS 18541aWhite Chief, MS 18541aColorado, MS 18541aMorgan, MS 18541aWay Up, MS 18541aBay City, MS 18541aQueen of the West, MS 18541aParadox, MS 18541aParadox Mill Site, MS 18541bRainbow, MS 17487General Lee, MS 18541aCliff Dweller MinePatented Claims: Titon, MS 13030aCliff Dweller, MS 17486'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.3161, -108.95235

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver
Secondary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic
Ore:	Amalgam, Argentite, Bornite, Copper, Cuprite, Galena, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Kaolinite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1975

Geology

Host rock:	Wingate Sandstone;Chinle Formation
Host type:	Shale,Sandstone
Structure:	Paradox Basin Fold And Fault Belt, Paradox Anticline, Paradox Valley Graben, Unnamed Faults
Tectonic:	Colorado Platform
Alteration processes:	Oxidation Of Cu Sulfides To Carbonates And Oxide

References

MRDS	D010954
DEP	10014258
Reference	{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., 1906, THE CASHIN MINE, MONTROSE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 285, P.125-128.}{Deposit:: COFFIN, R.C., 1921, RADIUM, URANIUM, AND VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: CGS BULL. 16, P.219-220.}{Deposit:: WITHINGTON, C.F., 1955, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PARADOX QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-72.}{Deposit:: FISHCER, R.P., 1936, PECULIAR HYDROTHERMAL COPPER-BEARING VEINS OF THE NORTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 6, P.588.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES INF. REPTS. AND ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.}{Deposit:: BLM MINERAL SURVEYS MS 13030A, 17486, 17487, 18541A&B}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANNUAL OPERATOR REPTS.; USBM 1954 MINERALS YEARBOOK}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.