Mine detail: Vanderbilt Mine

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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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