Lamartine Tunnel

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10167106
MAS/MILS ID 0080190913
Record type Site
Current site name Lamartine Tunnel
Alternate or previous names No. 10 Level

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.60531, 39.74027 (WGS84)
Elevation 2926
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

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Clear Creek

Comments on the location information

  • The Lamartine tunnel is about 4000 feet NE of the main shaft of the Lamartine mine.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Galena Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.60531, 39.74027

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 Freeland-Lamartine District
District name Central City

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1952
    Period 1867-1952
    Material ore
    Ore mined 295260mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2431825.66g
    Trace Zinc Zinc 570680.89mt
    Trace Silver Silver 96201884.8g
    Trace Lead Lead 2540842.11mt
    Trace Copper Copper 73845.74mt

Comments on the production information

  • A main production tunnel for the Lamartine mine (10th level), about 9,000 feet long.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OWN/OP:MONTANA MINING DEV.CO.

  • Deposit

    Harrison, J. E., and Wells, J. D., 1956, Geology and ore deposits of the Freeland-Lamartine district, Clear Creek County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1032-B, pp. 33-127.

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 28-DEC-2005 Beach, Richard A. Colorado 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.