1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Venier

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Manganese, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Reserves and resources
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10142317
MAS/MILS ID 0080650394
Record type Site
Current site name Venier
Alternate or previous names Venir, Venire

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.23728, 39.23832 (WGS84)
Elevation 3536
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Sherman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Lake

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcocite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.23728, 39.23832
ListMap

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 Leadville

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1929
    Material ore
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Iron Iron 25%null%
    Minor Copper Copper 1%null%
    Minor Lead Lead 1%null%
    Minor Silver Silver 274g/mt
    Minor Gold Gold 7g/mt

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Name Venir Vein
    Estimate year 1929
    Reserves 45359mt ore

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-FEB-1978 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 21-AUG-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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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