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Leadville

Occurrence in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008727
MRDS ID D001077
Record type Site
Current site name Leadville

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.23367, 39.2561 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Climax(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(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 Lake

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.23367, 39.2561
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Leadville

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULL. (COLO. SCH. OF MINES RESEARCH FOUNDATION), 1965, TUNGSTEN IN COLORADO, P.5.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL QUANTITIES OF WOLFRAMITE AND SCHEELITE FOUND SCATTERED IN THE SILICEOUS GOLD ORE OF THE SOUTH IBEX STOCKWORK IN BREECE HILL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1973 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 20-AUG-2007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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