Bald Eagle Mine

Past Producer in Clear Creek county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10214809
MAS/MILS ID 0080190188
Record type Site
Current site name Bald Eagle Mine
Alternate or previous names Two Brothers Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.53503, 39.76388 (WGS84)
Elevation 2713
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clear Creek(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Central City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Clear(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Clear Creek

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 003 S 073 W 26 SWNW Colorado

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.53503, 39.76388

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Petro Nuclear, Ltd.
    ID 502354
    Home office 1300 Lincoln Tower, Denver, Co 80202
    Year 1979
  • Type Owner
    Owner Monarch Mining Co.
    ID 502354
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1977

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MSHA INSPECTION DATA

  • Deposit

    REVISED BY MILS 2-19-80

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 20-JUN-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 01/04/1993
MSHA mine ID0502354
Mine name (MSHA)Bald Eagle Mine
Current operatorCr-Vcm Joint Venture
Current controller (parent)Citiresources Inc & Virginia Canyon Mining Co Inc
Mine typeFacility (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.