Southern Cross Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10240340
MRDS ID DC01347
MAS/MILS ID 0081070083
Record type Site
Current site name Southern Cross Mine
Related records 10016498

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.93284, 40.83747 (WGS84)
Elevation 2865
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
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.93284, 40.83747

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CAVED ADIT IN BRECCIA ZONE ENCIRCLING HAHNS PEAK STOCK. SEVERAL SMALLER CAVED ADITS ON SLOPES TO SOUTH INCLUDED IN THIS ENTRY.

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 Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAHNS PEAK 7.5 QUADRANGLE USGS BULL. 285A, 1905

  • 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 125-129)

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.