Fisherman

Past Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Production statistics
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10119304
MAS/MILS ID 0081170067
Record type Site
Current site name Fisherman

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.87199, 39.59082 (WGS84)
Elevation 3109
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Montezuma(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blue(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 Summit

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Arsenopyrite Trace

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.87199, 39.59082

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 Montezuma - Geneva Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Production statistics

  • Year 1908
    Period 1905-08
    Material ore
    Ore mined 69.87mt
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Silver Silver 83854.98g
    Major Lead Lead 29564.69mt
    Trace Zinc Zinc 8823.27mt
    Minor Gold Gold 202.17g

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-OCT-1981 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 07-AUG-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

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