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Silver King Shaft

Prospect in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodity Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087520
MRDS ID D007685
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.35335, 38.10751 (WGS84)
Elevation 2758
Relative position 1.05 MILES N52W FROM ROSITA, CO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rosita(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 022S 071W 29 SE OF SW OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE NW SIDE OF PRINGLE HILL, IN THE N/2 SEC.29, T 22 S, R 71 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Argillization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
    Rock description Rosita Andesite;Game Ridge Trachyte
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.35335, 38.10751
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Rosita Volcanic Center, Wet Mtns
Type of structure Local
Structure description Trachyte Dike Nearby; Small Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Trachyte Dike Nearby; Mineralized Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882

Mining district

District name Rosita Hills District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A 1981 report suggested that low-grade, bulk-tonnage silver deposits may occur along the Silver King-Matchless vein and south of the Leavenworth-Humboldt-Pocahontas vein. (Sunshine files)

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic 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 MAPS I-1081.

  • Reserve-Resource

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBSURFACE IN WESTERN PART OF QUADRANGLE, SEVERAL HORIZONS OF BRINE TO BE EXPECTED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 31-MAR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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