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Great Western

Past Producer in Pitkin county in Colorado, United States with commodities 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. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10215081
MRDS ID D002487
MAS/MILS ID 0080970085
Record type Site
Current site name Great Western
Related records 10090681

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.82502, 39.18029 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pitkin(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aspen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Roaring Fork(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 Pitkin

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.82502, 39.18029
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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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:MINE MAP REPO #409844

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CERCLA (SUPERFUND) SITE. PROPERTY INCLUDED IN THE SMUGGLER MOUNTAIN MINING WASTE SITE LISTED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL), MAY 1986. ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS INCLUDE MINE DUMPS, TAILINGS, AND SLAG CONTAINING HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD, CADMIUM, AND OTHER HEAVY METALS. DOI/USBM DESIGNATED AS A PRP. USBM SAMPLED MINE DUMPS IN 1946/1947.

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.

External references

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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.