Mount Sherman

The 14,043-foot (4,280 m) fourteener is located 6.8 miles (11.0 km) east by south (bearing 103°) of the City of Leadville, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating Lake County from Park County.

[7] The Sherman mine, located in upper Iowa Gulch at and above 12,200 ft. on the west flank of Mt.

The Sherman silver-lead-zinc deposit is hosted in dolomites of the Early Mississippian Leadville Formation.

Mineralization is within an integrated cavern system that developed in these carbonate rocks in Late Mississippian time.

[9] Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization was emplaced into the old cave system at about 272 ± 18 Ma, during the Early Permian period.

Cerussite - Rosasite - Azurite - Smithsonite - Mimetite (etc.), classic secondary ore mineral specimen from the Sherman Mine. Size: 15.1 x 10.6 x 9.8 cm. Click on image for more photos of this specimen.
Mount Sherman and the Mosquito Range : (left to right) Horseshoe Mountain (obvious), White Ridge, Mount Sherman , Gemini Peak and "Mount Evans #2" (far right), looking west from State Highway 9 , just north of Fairplay . Photo taken in May 2009, courtesy of David Herrera.