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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