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How can I find a map for inactive gold mines is Colorado?

 

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[russau]

contact e Colorado Department of Natural Reasources and/or the Colorado Department of Mines.

 

[goldenIrishman]

You can also get a lot of information on them at the My Land Matters sight. See the link in my signature. Go to the maps and select MINING MAPS. GO to the Colorado claims map. Once it loads turn the MINING CLAIMS ACTIVITY layer by clicking on the box and hitting REFRESH MAP (Don't refresh the page with the browser reload button or you go back to step one!) which is the button on the bottom of the map tool bar on the right side of the map. Use the zoom tool to enlarge any area and the move map to move around the map. Once you have zoomed to the area you want to check out, click on the information button and then click the map. a window with all the info for that sector will open up and will often include links for further info.

Land Matters is one of my "go to" sites for research. Learning how to use it is not hard and well worth the time to learn.

 

[KevinInColorado]

What you are looking for is mines with a status of "closed". That means the prior claim owner let the claim expire. Mylandmatters will list both active and closed claims in the survey section you click on after you hit the "I" (eye) for information button.

 

[Bnugget]

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[BARKER]

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[bobw53]

How can I find a map for inactive gold mines is Colorado?

Old actual mines? Land matters may have that.. Freegoldmaps has maps of the old mines, as does mindat.org.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Old actual mines? Land matters may have that.. Freegoldmaps has maps of the old mines, as does mindat.org.

Which of these you use will depend on your goals. The free gold and mindat mentioned just above are great for historical mine info so you can identify an area of interest. They will not show you recently closed claims...you need more current data for that such as mylandmatters.org, LR2000 and of course the county clerk.