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Colorado Travel Tunnel

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Molybdenum
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009938
MRDS ID D003236
MAS/MILS ID 80650151
Record type Site
Current site name Colorado Travel Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Pirate, Vault, Gold, Key, Banker, Wire Gold

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.17402, 39.31677 (WGS84)
Elevation 3816
Relative position Probably the adit labeled "Mine" on the topo.

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)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008S 079W 25 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.17402, 39.31677
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Alicante

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Emmons and others, 1927, Geology and ore deposits of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado: USGS PROF PAPER 148 , PLATES 11 & 12.

  • Deposit

    Mineral Property File

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1978-04-01 Hasler, J. William U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-17 Intermountain Field Operations Center U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2008-06-25 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.