Crested Butte

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191592
MRDS ID DC00914
MAS/MILS ID 0080510106
Record type Site
Current site name Crested Butte
Alternate or previous names Daisy Mine, Daisey, Chautauqua
Related records 10016304

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.05873, 38.89109 (WGS84)
Elevation 3414
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gunnison(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oh-be-joyful(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Paonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East-Taylor(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Gunnison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 013 S 087 W 25 SE Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -107.05873, 38.89109

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Crested Butte Mining And Milling Co
    Year 1953

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ACCESS IS THROUGH KEYSTONE MINE SEQ# 0080510199

  • Deposit

    REV BY MILS 8-79

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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.