Michigan

Past Producer in Summit 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. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Production statistics
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10289366
MRDS ID D002912
MAS/MILS ID 0081170114
Record type Site
Current site name Michigan
Related records 10107844

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.19561, 39.4211 (WGS84)
Elevation 3353
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blue(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River 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 Summit

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.19561, 39.4211

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 Tenmile - Kokomo

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1950
    Period 1902-50
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Lead Lead 1%null%
    Major Gold Gold 3g/mt
    Trace Copper Copper 0%null%
    Trace Zinc Zinc 1%null%
    Trace Silver Silver 161g/mt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS Atlas Folio 48, 1898

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 652

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-FEB-1978 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 15-AUG-0007 Melton, Greg U.S. 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.