Gold Coin

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. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10143409
MAS/MILS ID 0081190198
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Coin
Alternate or previous names Gold Coin Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.14137, 38.71171 (WGS84)
Elevation 2956
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) -105.14137, 38.71171

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 Cripple Creek
District name Victor

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner GRANITE GOLD MINING CO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO # 400286 400338 & OTHERS

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General "The Gold Coin Mine illustrates what all owners hoped their property would become. According to story, the vein was found during excaation of the site for a Victor hotel." (Smith, 1977, p. 125)

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

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.