Price Tunnel

Past Producer in Routt county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, 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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191098
MAS/MILS ID 0081070184
Record type Site
Current site name Price Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Tom Thumb Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.93504, 40.84027 (WGS84)
Elevation 2905
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Routt(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hahns Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Routt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.93504, 40.84027

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 Hahns Peak

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED FROM BRECCIA ZONE ENCIRCLING HAHNS PEAK STOCK. ABOUT 450 T OF ORE PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1945. ADIT CAVED IN 1992.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAHNS PEAK 7.5 QUADRANGLE

  • Deposit

    Neubert, J. T., 1994, Mineral appraisal of Routt National Forest, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 13-94, 64 p., appendicies. (Sample 124)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUL-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.

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

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