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Cap Smith Hill

Occurrence in Routt county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10239960
MAS/MILS ID 0081070191
Record type Site
Current site name Cap Smith Hill
Alternate or previous names Tom Thumb Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.97844, 40.83527 (WGS84)
Elevation 2573
Location accuracy 500(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
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.97844, 40.83527
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hahns Peak

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 159-164)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL SMALL WORKINGS, INCLUDING SHORT CAVED ADITS, NEAR BASE OF CAP SMITH HILL, ON BOTH SIDES OF WILLOW CREEK. SILICIFIED SANDSTONE OR PORPHYRY EXPOSED AT MOST WORKINGS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-AUG-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.