Penn No. 1 Mine

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10264369
MAS/MILS ID 0080650086
Record type Site
Current site name Penn No. 1 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.24839, 39.24888 (WGS84)
Elevation 3383

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Sherman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 009 S 079 W 20 C S2 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcocite Ore

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.24839, 39.24888

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Leadville

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAS OCT 1976 FILE

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 148, p. 294

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-JUL-1993 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 21-AUG-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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