Mantle Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10166666
MRDS ID D009857
MAS/MILS ID 0080810160
Record type Site
Current site name Mantle Mine
Alternate or previous names Mantle-Jameson
Related records 10013512

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -108.7624, 40.43746 (WGS84)
Elevation 2400
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moffat(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tanks Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rangely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Dinosaur National Monument(National Monument)

National Monument NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Moffat

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -108.7624, 40.43746

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Monument

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:USGS TANKS PEAK QUAD OWNR:R.L. BENNETT 1949

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.