Montezuma, Snake River, and Peru Districts

Producer in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Bismuth, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver
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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000408
MRDS ID DC05631
Record type District
Current site name Montezuma, Snake River, and Peru Districts
Related records 10191699

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.1006, 39.46999 (WGS84)
Relative position Found County and State and took an approximate location.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Breckenridge(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
Gold Primary
Bismuth Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.1006, 39.46999

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name MONTEZUMA DISTRICT
District name SNAKE RIVER DISTRICT
District name PERU DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SHARPS, 1963: CSM MIN. IND. BULL., VOL. 6, NO. 6.

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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