Location: | Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 38.15057, -105.43863 |
dep_id: | 10087575 |
mrds_id: | D007926 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Silver, Lead |
Trace mineral: | Manganese |
Operation type: | Underground |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Cerargyrite, Cerussite |
gangue: | Barite, Manganese Ox-Hydrous |
model: | 82: Epithermal veins |
alteration: | Weakly Argillized |
ore_ctrl: | Fault |
Reporter: | Collins, Donna B. |
hrock_unit: | Rhyolite Of Round Mountain And White Hills |
hrock_type: | Rhyolite |
Structure: | Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Wet Mtn Valley, Fault; Cross Fissure N65w Cuts Off Ore On South |
tectonic: | Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns) |
dy_ba: | < |
disc_yr: | 1895 |
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.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081.
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