Pride of the West Mill (Facility)

Plant in San Juan county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10288964
MAS/MILS ID 81110017
Record type Site
Current site name Pride of the West Mill (Facility)
Alternate or previous names Pride of the West, Yukon Mill Pride Mill

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -107.5925, 37.8369 (WGS84)
Elevation 2950
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Howardsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silverton(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 San Juan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -107.5925, 37.8369

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner YUKON MINING & MI
  • Type Owner
    Owner Goldfields, Inc.
    Interest 100
    Home office Lakewood, CO
    Year 2012
    First year 2007

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Ownership

    Lofholm, Nancy, 2012, Lakewood comapny seeks to reopen defunct Silverton mine: The Denver Post, July 30, 2012.

  • Deposit

    COLO DIVION MINES SUMMY OF MINErAL ACTIVITIES IN COLO

  • Deposit

    MESA MET-NONMET MINING FILE REF

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1997-01-10 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2012-07-30 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey attached article from Denver Post.

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.