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Shoe Basin

Past Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191765
MAS/MILS ID 81170158
Record type Site
Current site name Shoe Basin
Alternate or previous names Washington

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.79917, 39.60762 (WGS84)
Elevation 3389
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Adit on MF-2163

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Montezuma(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blue(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Summit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 005S 075W 16 SW Colorado

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Barite Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.79917, 39.60762
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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
Year of first production 1914
Production years 1914, 1915

Mining district

District name Montezuma - Geneva Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • Small production is combined with Peruvian Mine. See ID# 10240498.

Comments on the workings information

  • Shoe Basin tunnel was driven to intercept the Peruvian mine workings.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1978-02-13 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2007-08-07 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2012-10-22 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey minor corrections.

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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