Mine detail: Herman Passiflora Mine

Previously called 'Shafts: Vidler, Edman, Baker, Rey, BluntDenver Lease, Claims: Thames River, Ten To One'

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Location: Custer County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.15973, -105.46363
dep_id: 10087576
mrds_id: D007928
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead
Minor mineral: Gold, Iron, Copper
Operation type: Underground
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite
gangue: Illite, Jarosite, Quartz
work_type: Underground
model: 82: Epithermal veins
alteration: Strong Argillization, Bleaching
ore_ctrl: Concentric Faults And Fissures
Reporter: Collins, Donna B.
arock_unit: Rim Breccia And Latite Flow
arock_type: Tuff,Rhyolite,Latite
Structure: Silver Cliff Volcanic Center, Wet Mountains, Wet Mtn Valley, Concentric Faults Of Ben West Hill
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:: FIELDMAN, D.W. AND CROWLEY, F.P., 1980, SILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SILVER CLIFF CALDERA, IN SILVER CLIFF VOLCANIC CENTER AND TALLAHASSEE CREEK URANIUM DEPOSITS: DENVER REGIONAL EXPLORATION GEOLOGISTS GUIDEBOOK, P. 1-14.
  • Deposit:: SHARP, W.M., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081.
  • Deposit:: COLORADO DIVISION MINES, 1981, INSPECT RECORDS
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