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Missing Link

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091289
MRDS ID DC03235
MAS/MILS ID 80130536
Record type Site
Current site name Missing Link
Related records 10117577

Comments on the site identification

  • Note that there are 2 different Missing Link mines in Colo. Metal Mining Fund Board, 1960 on p. 51. The one in Sec. 7-8 is associated with The Cross. The one in Sec. 24 is associated with the Cross No. 2.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.483, 39.98289 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Near the Tenderfoot. (Betwen Nancy Henderson, Western Star, Cross, and Cold Spring)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tungsten(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 01S 72W 7, 8 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.483, 39.98289
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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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc.
    Year 1960

Comments on the production information

  • Produced more than 100 units.

Comments on the workings information

  • Probably connects with Tenderfoot workings.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STATE OF COLO. METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLO.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10,62

  • Deposit

    Lovering and Tweto, 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Front Range, Colorado: USGS Prof. Paper 223, 319 p.

  • Deposit

    COLO BOM 1937 LIST

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FULL INFO BY MINE NAME IN REFERENCE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2007-05-29 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2013-12-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate. Disentangled confusion with Cross-Missing Link a couple miles to the SW.
Reporter 1983-11-17 Intermountain Field Operations Center U.S. Bureau of Mines Mixed up and confused the different Missing Link and Cross and Cross No. 2 mines.

Beyond USGS

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

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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.