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Old Settler Mine

Past Producer in Clear Creek county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Uranium
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  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 10263691
MAS/MILS ID 0080191144
Record type Site
Current site name Old Settler Mine
Alternate or previous names Old Settler Tunnel, Old Settler Mine & Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.57726, 39.74832 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682
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

  • Mine and adit are in NE sec. 32, T 3 S, R 73 W, on the ridge between Trail Creek and Turkey Gulch and about 3 miles west of Idaho Springs. Old Settler Tunnel is 500 feet to the NW.

Commodities

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

Comments on the commodity information

  • Low-grade uranium detected in limonitic vein material.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Limonite Gangue

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) -105.57726, 39.74832
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Old Settler vein trends E-W and dips moderately to north.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1860

Mining district

District name Idaho Springs District
District name Central City

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1909
    Material ore
    Ore mined 5.9mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Silver Silver 2270.55g
    Major Gold Gold 186.62g
  • Year 1937
    Period 1934-37
    Material ore
    Ore mined 153.53mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 6687.24g
    Minor Zinc Zinc 10.88mt
    Minor Copper Copper 919.88mt
    Minor Silver Silver 15489.53g
  • Year 1954
    Material ore
    Ore mined 27.55mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Lead Lead 362.87mt
    Minor Copper Copper 45.35mt
    Minor Silver Silver 6407.31g
    Major Gold Gold 155.51g

Comments on the production information

  • Considerable, but unquantified, production of gold from rich ore near the surface in the 1860s. Minor production recorded from 1934 to 1951.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Moench, R. H., and Drake, A. A., Jr., 1966, Economic geology of the Idaho Springs district, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1208, 91 p.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    Spurr, J. E., Garrey, G. H., and Ball, S. H., 1908, Economic geology of the Georgetown quadrangle, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 63, 422 p.

  • Commodity

    URANIUM DATA FROM AEC PRR-1616, EXAMINED IN 1952

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-FEB-1978 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 27-FEB-1984 Minecom U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 30-DEC-2005 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 17-JUL-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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