1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Ajax Mine

Past Producer in Park county in Colorado, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400647
Record type Site
Current site name Ajax Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.136, 39.32 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Climax(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Platte Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Park

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 08S 078W 29, 32 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Location estimated from fig. on USFS environmental assessment report (USFS, 2007, p. 8, 9) to be the same as the unnamed prospect at 12,400 ft in SE of SW of Sec. 29 on the Climax 1:24,000 topo.
  • Several news reports as of March 2012 erroneously repeat the misinformation that the mine is in Teller county. The mine is NOT in Teller County.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Commodity may have been gold or silver.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.136, 39.32
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • "No vein is exposed at the surface of the Ajax tunnel site and only a few pieces of pyritic rock were found on the waste-rock pile." (USFS, 2007, p. 28)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Alma

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Pke National Forest (South Park Ranger District)

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Kevin Lawrence
    Home office Alma, Colorado
    Year 2012
    First year 1988

Comments on the production information

  • IF the mine ever produced, the quantity of ore and grade are unknown.

Reference information

Comments on the references

  • There is no note of this mine in Patton, H.B., Hoskin, A.J., and Butler, G.M., 1912, Geology and ore deposits of the ?Amsa District, Park County, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin No. 3, 284 p. (pl. 1,

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General Ajax tunnel entrance is an historic site from an historic mine established in the 1890's. It is not eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. (USFS, 2007, p. 19)
General Mine was in the news March 12, 2012 when the owner/operator, Kevin Lawrence, was found crushed to death in a mine collapse.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2012-03-14 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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