Colorado · Summit County
Past Producer
Pennsylvania Mine
Summit County, Colorado, United States
Copper Zinc Gold Lead Silver
Land & claims · BLM · live
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Surface manager + active mining claims at this point, live from BLM. The "open to location" notes are a general 1872-Mining-Law guide, not BLM output — decision-support only; verify with BLM MLRS and on the ground before staking or entry.
Commodities
PrimaryCopper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver
Commodity typeMetallic
Deposit
Model{85: Polymetallic veins}
Deposit sizeY
WorkingsUnderground
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
GanguePyrite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockSchist,Gneiss,Granitoid,Porphyry · "Idaho Springs Formation", "Silver Plume Granite", "Montezuma quartz monzonite stock"
Structure"ore localized in competent gneiss wall rock"
Alteration"wall rocks are silicified, pyritized"
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
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References
{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.S., 1935, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MONTEZUMA QUADRANGLE, COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 178, 119 P.}{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.}{Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 8,65}{Deposit:: NEUERBERG, G.J., BOTINELLY, THEODORE, AND ANALYSIS, 1977, SELECTED GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROGRAPHIC DATA FOR CHARACTERIZING THE MINERALIZED ROCKS OF THE MONTEZUMA MINING DISTRICT, CENTRAL COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT 77-425.}{Deposit:: WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., 1991, ASCII DATABASE FOR PRINCIPAL LODE MINES AND MINERALIZED AREAS IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 91-0027A AND B, 22 P. AND ONE DISKETTE.}{Deposit:: WILSON, ANNA B., AND LAROCK, EDWARD J., IN PRESS, MINERALIZED AREAS AND PRINCIPAL LODE MINES IN SOUTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-2163, SCALE 1:50,000.}{Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.}{Environment:: Finley, Bruce, 2012, Sticky Predicament--Risk of lawsuits preventing vital cleanup of thousands of abandoned mines: Denver Post (newspaper), Sunday Sept. 9, 2012, p. B1, B8.}
Identification
Deposit ID10108421
MRDS IDDC05609
Alternate namesPenn Mine, Congress, Rothschild (Minerou) Tunnel
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.60083, -105.80972
Base: USGS MRDS (public domain, frozen 2011). Community notes © their authors, CC-BY. Land data live from BLM.