Independence Mine

Past Producer in Teller county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10142946
MAS/MILS ID 0081190257
Record type Site
Current site name Independence Mine
Alternate or previous names Stratton Independence Mine, Winfield Stratton's Independence Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.13497, 38.71281 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teller(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cripple Creek South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Teller

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.13497, 38.71281

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner PORTLAND GOLD MIN. CO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO #400513, 400472, 400567 & OTHERS

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOL. SURVEY PROF PAPER 223, P6, 306.

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, 1947, MINERAL RESOURes of COLORADO

  • Deposit

    Smith, D.A., 1977, Colorado Mining--A photgraphic history: Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 176 p.

  • Deposit

    Smith, D.A., 2009, The trail of gold and silver [Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009]: Boulder, Univ. of Colorado Press, 289 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 05-JAN-12 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey parsed out bibliography into distinct records.

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.