Silver State Smelting & Refining C

Past Producer in La Plata county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10288145
MAS/MILS ID 0080670268
Record type Site
Current site name Silver State Smelting & Refining C
Alternate or previous names Silver State Smelting & Refining Co

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -107.77004, 37.32221 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Plata(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Durango East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Durango(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Durango(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas(hydrologic unit)

Upper San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado La Plata

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 035 N 009 W 29 W2 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -107.77004, 37.32221

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Lindsay Becker
    Year 1960

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CBM ANNUAL REPORT 1960

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Denton, David K. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.