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Ute Creek area

Producer in Clear Creek county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108028
MRDS ID DC00127
Record type Site
Current site name Ute Creek area
Alternate or previous names Seventy-six shaft, Fog Storm shaft, Argentite shaft, Henry Wilson shaft, Bald Eagle shaft, Wallace tunnel, Argosy shaft, Argo tunnel and shaft, French Girl tunnel, Gold and Silver Coin shaft, Quida tunnel and shaft, Sappho tunnel, Kearsarge tunnel, Emma Jane tunnel and shaft, Alexander tunnel, Dixie tunnel and shaft, Katie Emmett, upper tunnel, Evergreen tunnel, S shaft, Tyone tunnel, Charter Oak shaft, American Boy shaft, Humboldt tunnel, shaft, 4th level tunnel, Mary Foster shaft, Brunswick tunnel, Exchange pits, Mohawk tunnel

Comments on the site names

  • includes at least 27 sites already in oldMAS including (all sites begin 008019) 1331, 0629, 0187, 1520, 0150, 0149, 0148, 0649, 1169, 1311, 0868, 0583, 0103, 0517, 0010, 0613, 1298, 1489, 0011, 0117, 0796, 1022, 0323, 1075, 0771, 0700, 0860. Plus MRDS D002529, unnumbered Exchange pits and Argentite shaft.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.61861, 39.71928 (WGS84)
Relative position near middle of 27-some mines included in this record in upper reaches of Ute Creek, south of Lamartine.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clear Creek(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Idaho Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Clear(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 Clear Creek

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 04S 74W 12 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Area record located near the middle of the 27-some mines included in the record.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.61861, 39.71928
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: GALENA SPHALERITE TYPE VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Central City

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS P P 63, 1908, PL 17 AND TEXT

  • Deposit

    USGS P P 319, 1959, PL2 AND TEXT

  • Deposit

    BLM CONNECTING SHEETS

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 11,69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1972 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 11-APR-2008 Wilson, Anna 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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