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Tom Thumb Mine

Past Producer in Routt county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver
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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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191173
MRDS ID DC01345
MAS/MILS ID 0081070085
Record type Site
Current site name Tom Thumb Mine
Related records 10016496

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.93174, 40.84077 (WGS84)
Elevation 3109
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Routt(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hahns Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt 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 Routt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.93174, 40.84077
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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

Mining district

District name Hahns Peak

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED FROM BRECCIA ZONE ENCIRCLING HAHNS PEAK STOCK. ABOUT 200 T OF ORE PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1909. ADIT CAVED IN 1992. ORE WORTH $70/T AT TIME OF PRODUCTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAHNS PEAK 7.5 QUADRANGLE USGS BULL. 285A, 1905

  • Deposit

    Neubert, J. T., 1994, Mineral appraisal of Routt National Forest, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 13-94, 64 p., appendicies. (Samples 121-123)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUL-1993 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.