1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Breckenridge Mining District

Past Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Vanadium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10192257
MRDS ID D000016
MAS/MILS ID 0081170032
Record type District
Current site name Breckenridge Mining District

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -106.27061, 39.40527 (WGS84)
Elevation 3633
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eagle(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pando(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eagle(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River 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 Summit

Commodities

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

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 56
USGS model code 17a
Deposit model name Placer Au
Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -106.27061, 39.40527
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This entry is for all the lode mines in the entire Breckenridge "District".

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1991 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 24-OCT-2008 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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