Ten Mile Tunnel

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10142956
MRDS ID DE00883
MAS/MILS ID 0081170174
Record type Site
Current site name Ten Mile Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Tenmile Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.19728, 39.40888 (WGS84)
Elevation 3353
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 007 S 079 W 26 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.19728, 39.40888

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tenmile - Kokomo

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Climax Molybdenum Co., Division Of American Metal Climax Inc. (Amax)
    ID 502255
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-DEC-1996 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 15-AUG-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 08/13/2014
MSHA mine ID0502255
Mine name (MSHA)Climax Ten Mile Tunnel
Current operatorClimax Molybdenum Company
Current controller (parent)Freeport-McMoRan Inc
Mine typeUnderground (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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