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Empire Zinc Mine

Producer in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodity Zinc
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107937
MRDS ID D004882
Record type Site
Current site name Empire Zinc Mine
Related records 10239803

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.25251, 38.4089 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 2.1 MILES S25W OF CANON CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Royal Gorge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 19S 70W 08 W2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR WOLF PARK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.25251, 38.4089
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Canon City Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARMY ENGR MAP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALTHOUGH THIS "MINE" HAS BEEN PLACED IN THIS LOCATION BY SEVERAL REFERENCES, IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT THIS IS ITS TRUE LOCATION. THIS IS PROBABLY THE LOCATION OF A MILL OR SMELTER. NOT HAVING BEEN VERIFIED, HOWEVER, THIS ENTRY IS BEING LEFT IN THE FILE (D.B. COLLINS) ; INFO.SRC : 4 OTHER SRC; COMPUTER FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Foord, Suzann C U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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