Mary McKinney

Past Producer in Teller county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10264833
MAS/MILS ID 0081190329
Record type Site
Current site name Mary McKinney
Alternate or previous names Le Clair Mines, Anaconda Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.16337, 38.7286 (WGS84)
Elevation 2926
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teller(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cripple Creek South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Teller

Comments on the location information

  • About 1 mi SE of Cripple Creek, in Squaw Gulch near the old mining camp of Anaconda, in the SW/4 sec. 19, T 15 S, R 69 W. Property is within or adjacent to current Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. project area.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calaverite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Roscoelite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 84
USGS model code 22b
Deposit model name Alkaline Au-Te (Au-Ag-Te veins)
Mark3 model number 80

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Intra-ash flow quartz latitic lavas

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 Cripple Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO #400213, 400214, 407010 & OTHERS

  • Deposit

    OWN: MARY MCKINNEY MINING; AFTER 1929, LE CLAIR CONS. MINES

  • Deposit

    Lindgren, W., and Ransome, F. L., 1906, Geology and gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 54, 516 p.

  • Deposit

    Loughlin, G. F., and Koschmann, A. H., 1935, Geology and ore deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado: Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 6, p. 217-435.

  • Deposit

    Koschmann, A. H., 1949, Structural control of the gold deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Teller County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 955-B, p. 19-60.

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 18-APR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

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.