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Breece Hill properties

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10311049
Record type Site
Current site name Breece Hill properties

Comments on the site names

  • Breece Hill is an area of numerous mines and prospects; it is not possible to tell which are those referred to in the file.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.23728, 39.24221 (WGS84)

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

Comments on the location information

  • Properties are on Breece Hill just west of the Ibex Mine, about 3 miles east of Leadville, in sec 28 or 29, T 9 S, R 79 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Letters refer to a gold-silver property (with an iron capping), and to a lead-zinc-silver property. (Sunshine files)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.23728, 39.24221
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Leadville District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Report dated 1947 estimates 50,000 tons of dump material grading 0.1 oz/ton gold and 1.0 oz/ton silver. (Sunshine files)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-FEB-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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