| Lat / long: | 31.66013, -111.27402 |
| Primary: | Silver |
| Secondary: | Copper, Lead, Gold |
| Tertiary: | Mercury, Zinc |
| Ore: | Anglesite, Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Freibergite, Galena, Mercury, Polybasite, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Stromeyerite, Tetrahedrite |
| Gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Chlorite, Iron, Quartz, Sericite, Siderite |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR, LENSING |
| Discovery year: | 1750 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| First production started: | 1856 |
| Last production ended: | 1937 |
| Host type: | Andesite |
| Associated type: | Rhyolite,Andesite |
| Alteration processes: | Hematite Stain & Drusy Quartz. |
| MRDS | M050286 |
| DEP | 10039562 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: JONES, R.D., 1957, CERRO COLORADO DISTRICT: UNIV. ARIZ. M.S. THESIS.}{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1974, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 189, P. 114.}{Deposit:: HEYLMUN, E.B., 1987, CERRO COLORADO SILVER MINE, ARIZONA: CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL, V. 56, NO. 11, P. 75-78.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: ( 1 ) KEITH, S. B., 1974 . ( 2 ) ELSING, 1936 , ABM BULL. 140 . HEYLMUN, 1987, P. 77.} |
| Reporter | Johnson, Maureen G., Bolm, Karen S., Orris, Greta J. |