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St. Kevin Mine

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10016198
MRDS ID DC00674
Record type Site
Current site name St. Kevin Mine
Alternate or previous names St. Kevin shaft, Grandview shaft, Rosse tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.39255, 39.29221 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Homestake Reservoir(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 Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 09S 81W 01 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Shaft is about 1 mile north of Turquoise Lake and 6 miles NW of Leadville, in the SE/4 sec 1, T 9 S, R 81 W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Polybasite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tennantite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.39255, 39.29221
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Veins in fissure zones in Precambrian granite, and schist and gneiss, trend ENE to east and dip to the north. Silver, and some gold, are the main products sought.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name St. Kevin-Sugarloaf District

Comments on the production information

  • Incomplete records credit the mine with almost 1 million oz of silver production. (Sunshine files, 1983)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Total reserves (mostly inferred) of 120,000 tons of material containing 22 oz/ton silver and 0.06 oz/ton gold. (Sunshine files, 1983)
  • MAY BE GOOD IF RADIOACTIVITY IS DUE TO U

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS - PRR - D - 377

  • Deposit

    Singewald, Q. D., 1951, Sugar Loaf and St. Kevin mining districts, Lake County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1027-E, p. 251-299.

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1972 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 02-MAR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey
Reporter 08-FEB-1984 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

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