Alma No.1

Past Producer in Park county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10016064
MRDS ID DC00292
MAS/MILS ID 0080930040
Record type Site
Current site name Alma No.1
Alternate or previous names Alma #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.19143, 39.13721 (WGS84)
Relative position 600FT. E. OF BLDGS. OF RUBY MINE

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)

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 10S 79W 35 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Duplicate record (now deleted) 10142906, gave location as 39-7-42, -106-10-23, within 10 m of main entrance. Possibly more accurate than the lat/long given in this record calculated from Sec/Twnshp/Rng.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Record 10142906 listed zinc as trace, not major.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.19143, 39.13721

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 Alma

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DMEA RECORDS

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 9,64

  • Deposit

    Mine Map Repository #402419

  • Deposit

    Minerals Property File

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 20-JUN-2008 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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