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.
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.