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Empire City

Past 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. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10117369
MAS/MILS ID 0080190585
Record type Site
Current site name Empire City

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.68198, 39.76388 (WGS84)
Elevation 2667
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clear Creek(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Empire(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Clear Creek

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.68198, 39.76388
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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 Empire

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF CBM ANNUAL REPORT 1935 OPERATOR: L.L.TURLEY

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 63, p. 394

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 223, p. 160

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 27-JUL-0007 Melton, Greg 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.