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Saints John Mine

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. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Production statistics
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10264660
MRDS ID D002830
MAS/MILS ID 0081170154
Record type Site
Current site name Saints John Mine
Alternate or previous names Saint John, St John, Sts John
Related records 10009708

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.8784, 39.57029 (WGS84)
Elevation 3353
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keystone(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

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Barite Gangue
Pyrite Trace

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.8784, 39.57029
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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
Discovery year 1865

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1928
    Period 1870-28
    Material ore
    Ore mined 24003.65mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Zinc Zinc 173639.69mt
    Trace Silver Silver 3447572.04g
    Trace Lead Lead 1427162.16mt
    Major Gold Gold 311.03g
    Trace Copper Copper 863.63mt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF: KEYSTONE 7.5" QUAD

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-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.

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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.