Mine detail: Idarado Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 37.9142, -107.70344

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead
Secondary: Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc
Other material: Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Discovery year: 1870

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1875

Geology

References

MRDSW700637
MAS80910002
DEP10240224
Reference{Deposit:: E&MJ INT DIRECTORY 1975}{Deposit:: UPDATED BY MILS TO REFLECT LAST MSHA LIST 8-79.}{Deposit:: GENTRY, DOW W., LEAD & ZINC DEPOSITS IN COLORADO AND}{Deposit:: WYOMING. BU. MINES CONTRACT G00264005, SEP 1976, 211 PP.}{Geology:: BURBANK, W. S. GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS IN THE WESTERN SAN}{Geology:: JUAN MTNS, COLORADO. IN RIDGE, J. D., EDITOR, ORE DEPOSITS}{Geology:: OF THE U. S., 1933-1967, (GRATON-SALES VOL): CHAP 34, V. 1}{Geology:: PP. 714-733.}{Production:: A. A. MATHEWS MINE INTERVIEW REPORT FOR BUMINES CONTRACT}{Production:: J0255026, CODE 28A, OCT 75, 7 PP.}{Production:: STEVENS R. C. ET AL. MILLING PRACTICE AT IDARADO MINING CO.}{Production:: IN RAUSCH, D. O., EDITOR, MINING AND CONCENTRATING OF LEAD}{Production:: AND ZINC, AIME WORLD SYM, V. 1, 1970, PP. 526-541}%%{Reserve-Resource:: NEWMONT ANN. REPT-1970 THRU 1977.}{Workings:: CUMMINS, A. B. SME MINING ENGINEERING HANDBOOK, SEC 12.11.2}{Workings:: VOL 1, 1973, PP 12-138,139.}
ReporterHite, Alan G.