Mine detail: Maverick Mine

Previously called 'SenatorTennesseeAspen'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.10168, -105.33835

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead, Zinc
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Clay
Discovery year:	1870

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1874

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated rock:	Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
Associated type:	Trachyte,Andesite
Structure:	Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns, Rosita Fault; Mineralized Fissures
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Argillized

References

MRDS	D008065
DEP	10101734
Reference	{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:: 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.N., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SILVER CLIFF AND ROSITA VOLCANIC CENTERS, CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1081, 1:24,000.}{Production:: EMMONS, S.F., 1896; COLORADO DIVISION MINES, 1981, INSPECTION RECORDS}{Reserve-Resource:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}
Reporter	Collins, Donna B., Beach, Richard A.