Silver King

Occurrence in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodity Silver
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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10190957
MAS/MILS ID 0080570013
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.99781, 40.38778 (WGS84)
Elevation 2975
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Richthofen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Estes Park(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Platte Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt 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 Jackson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.99781, 40.38778

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • NORTHWEST-TRENDING BRECCIA ZONE WITH PYRITE. FLOODED ADIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Teller

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINERAL APPRAISAL OF ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO, USBM

  • Deposit

    OPENFILE REPORT MLA ?-93, SAMPLE 394-395.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUN-1993 Neubert, John T. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.