Peerless Mine

Past Producer in Park county in Colorado, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10167599
MRDS ID DC00291
MAS/MILS ID 0080930208
Record type Site
Current site name Peerless Mine
Alternate or previous names Peerless Maud
Related records 10016063

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.1784, 39.19609 (WGS84)
Elevation 3974
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Sherman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Platte Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Park

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

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 Horseshoe Basin District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fraser, William
    ID 503746
    Interest 100
    Home office California
    Year 1990

Comments on the ownership information

  • OWNER:WILLIAM FRASER, 1939 MARTIN AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA. 94087, (408) 735-1915

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO #403248 #404528

  • Deposit

    MINERALS PROPERTY FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-MAY-1993 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.

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 07/05/1985
MSHA mine ID0503746
Mine name (MSHA)Peerless
Current operatorSilver State Mining Corp
Current controller (parent)William W Reed
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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External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

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