Mammoth Mine

Mammoth Mine is a quarry in San Juan, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,844 feet. Mammoth Mine is situated nearby to the locality Animas Forks, as well as near the hamlet Eureka.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in San Juan County, Colorado, United States of America; geonames ID = 5429962
Address: CO

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Animas Forks and Eureka.

Animas Forks

Locality

Photo: Kimon Berlin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Animas Forks is an extinct mining town located 12 miles northeast of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Eureka is an extinct mining town in northeastern San Juan County, Colorado, United States, along the Animas River, between Silverton and Animas Forks. The town derives its name from the Greek interjection Eureka! Eureka is situated 4½ miles south of Mammoth Mine.

Ironton

Hamlet

Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.

Ironton is an extinct town located in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lay south of the present town of Ouray, adjacent to the sites Guston and Red Mountain Town, fellow ghost towns. Ironton is situated 5 miles west of Mammoth Mine.

Mammoth Mine

Categories: mine and industry
Location: San Juan, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.93889° or 37° 56′ 20″ north

Longitude

-107.5895° or 107° 35′ 22″ west

Elevation

12,844 feet (3,915 metres)

Open location code

859JWCQ6+H5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369177704

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5429962

Wikidata ID

Q49429329

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In Other Languages

“Mammoth Mine” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Mammoth Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Colorado, San Juan County, lat 37,94, long -107,59)”
Cebuano: “Mammoth Mine”

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