Yukon property

Past Producer in Lake county in Colorado, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper
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. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10311051
Record type Site
Current site name Yukon property

Comments on the site names

  • Mines associated with the Yukon group include Atlas, Edna M., Fanchon, Tiger, T.L. Walsh,and Siwatch.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.39228, 39.25471 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Homestake Reservoir(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

Comments on the location information

  • A 900-acre property on Sugarloaf Mountain, SW of Turquoise Lake, about 6 miles WNW of Leadville, in or near sec 14(?), T 9 S, R 81 W. Mines in the Yukon group are nearby in secs 13, 24, and 25.

Commodities

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

Comments on the commodity information

  • Samples from mines in the Yukon group assayed anomalous values of base and precious metals. (Sunshine files, 1975)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.39228, 39.25471

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Veins in fissure zones in Precambrian granite, and schist and gneiss. Silver, and some gold and lead, were the main products of the district.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name St. Kevin-Sugarloaf District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Singewald, Q. D., 1951, Sugar Loaf and St. Kevin mining districts, Lake County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1027-E, p. 251-299.

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-MAR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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