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Master Key Mine

Past Producer in Routt county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  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 10191120
MRDS ID DC01368
MAS/MILS ID 0081070060
Record type Site
Current site name Master Key Mine
Alternate or previous names Prize Shaft
Related records 10091099

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.95784, 40.86357 (WGS84)
Elevation 2621
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)

Little Snake(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
Gold Tertiary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.95784, 40.86357
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • INACCESSIBLE SHAFTS SUNK IN SILICIFIED SHALE AND SANDSTONE.

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

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. (Samples 88-89)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-JUN-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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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