Zirkel Mine

Past Producer in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10264268
MRDS ID DC01746
MAS/MILS ID 0080570191
Record type Site
Current site name Zirkel Mine
Alternate or previous names Zirkel,17 Claims
Related records 10016645

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.57563, 40.95747 (WGS84)
Elevation 2643
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pearl(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Jackson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.57563, 40.95747

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • RECLAIMED SHAFT. EAST-TRENDING PEGMATITE IN GNEISS. MALACHITE AND PYRITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Pearl

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:CRIB,DC01746;7.5 QUAD MAP;U.S. FOR. SER. MAP

  • Deposit

    MINERAL APPRAISAL OF ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO: USBM

  • Deposit

    OPENFILE REPORT MLA ?-93, SAMPLE 34.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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