Sunday

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10263970
MAS/MILS ID 0080650369
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.22811, 39.23416 (WGS84)
Elevation 3718
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Sherman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Lake

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.22811, 39.23416

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 Leadville

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Production statistics

  • Year 1920
    Period 1917-1920
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Silver Silver 207g/mt
    Trace Gold Gold 5g/mt
    Major Lead Lead 15%null%
    Minor Copper Copper 1%null%

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-FEB-78 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 21-AUG-07 Melton, Greg U.S. 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.