The Smith Properties is a zinc, lead, and silver mine located in Clear Creek county, Colorado.
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Smith Properties MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Smith Properties
Secondary: Burleigh Mining Properties
Secondary: Silver Plume Mines
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Colorado
County: Clear Creek
District: Georgetown-Silver Plume District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
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Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Location): A 392-acre group of properties including several of the noted mines (Seven-Thirty, Bismarck, Dives-Pelican, and Wisconsin-Corry City) just north of Silver Plume, S/2 sec. 13, T 4 S, R 75 W.
Comment (Production): Mines in the group are credited with $12 to $15 million production, chiefly silver and lead by 1900, and a relatively small production since then.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Sunshine files contain older (1903) reports that may have dated or optimistic resource estimates of more than 1.5 million tons of ore, stope fill, and dump material.
References
Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
Reference (Deposit): Lovering, T. S., and Goddard, E. N., 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Front Range, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 223, 319 p.
Reference (Deposit): Spurr, J. E., Garrey, G. H., and Ball, S. H., 1908, Economic geology of the Georgetown quadrangle, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 63, 422 p.
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