Unnamed Placer

Occurrence in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10016179
MRDS ID DC00643
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Placer

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -106.21566, 39.34745 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no geographic coordinates; these coordinates were derived from the PLSS description provided.

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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 08S 79W Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -106.21566, 39.34745

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SMALL VEINS IN PENNSYLVANIAN SED. ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buckeye Gulch

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, 1947, MIN. RES. OF COLO., P. 126

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-72 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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