Boulder Nest

Past Producer in Clear Creek county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Production statistics
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10141470
MAS/MILS ID 0080190293
Record type Site
Current site name Boulder Nest

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.63976, 39.76971 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743
Location accuracy 10(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
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Tennantite Ore
Galena Ore

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.63976, 39.76971

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 Dumont

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1917
    Accuracy Estimate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 1714g/mt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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