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Rittenhouse

Past Producer in Teller county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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  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. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10167794
MAS/MILS ID 0081190433
Record type Site
Current site name Rittenhouse

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.16224, 38.73667 (WGS84)
Elevation 2987
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teller(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cripple Creek South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Teller

Comments on the location information

  • About 1 mile SE of Cripple Creek, on the SW side of Gold Hill, in the NW/4 sec. 19, T 15 S, R 69 W. Property is within or adjacent to current Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. project area.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.16224, 38.73667
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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 Cripple Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the ownership information

  • Yellow Gold of Cripple Creek, Inc. (Sunshine files, 1980)

Comments on development

  • Yellow Gold of Cripple Creek, Inc., did exploration and evaluation from 1979 to 1983.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO #400396, 400574, 407041, 407038

  • Deposit

    OWN: MOONLIGTH GOLD MIN CO 1924

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

  • Development

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, various years, The mineral industry of Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 18-APR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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