Lat / long: | 38.18362, -105.21751 |
Primary: | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Uranium |
Secondary: | Fluorine-Fluorite |
Ore: | Silver, Cerussite |
Gangue: | Calcite, Limonite, Fluorite |
Discovery year: | 1887 |
Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
Production size: | Small |
Development status: | Past Producer |
First production started: | 1887 |
Last production ended: | 1893 |
Host rock: | Undivided Gneiss |
Host type: | Gneiss,Granite |
Associated type: | Pyroxenite |
Structure: | Wet Mountains, Ilse Fault |
Tectonic: | Central Cordillera, Southern Rockies |
Alteration processes: | Extensive Oxidation And Alteration |
MRDS | D008910 |
DEP | 10087740 |
Reference | {Deposit:: HUNTER, J.F., 1915, SOME CERUSITE DEPOSITS IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULLETIN 580, P. 25-37.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1 DEGREE X 2 DEGREES QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.} |
Reporter | Collins, Donna B. |