Mountain Queen Mine
Mountain Queen Mine is a quarry in Ouray, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,917 feet. Mountain Queen Mine is situated nearby to Gilpin Peak, as well as near the peak Mount Sneffels.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Ouray County, Colorado, United States of America
- Address: CO
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gilpin Peak and Mount Sneffels.
Gilpin Peak
Peak
Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilpin Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,700-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.5 miles north-northeast of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray County and San Miguel County.
Mount Sneffels
Peak
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,153-foot fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 6.7 miles west by south of the City of Ouray in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. Mount Sneffels is situated 2 miles north of Mountain Queen Mine.
Dallas Peak
Peak
Dallas Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,815-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.3 miles north by west of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray and San Miguel counties. Dallas Peak is situated 2½ miles northwest of Mountain Queen Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pandora and Tomboy.
Pandora
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pandora is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Pandora was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines. Pandora is situated 3 miles south of Mountain Queen Mine.
Tomboy
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft, Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States. Tomboy is situated 3 miles southeast of Mountain Queen Mine.
Telluride
Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
Telluride is in the southern Rocky Mountains approximately 100 miles from Four Corners, the intersection of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Telluride is home to the Telluride Ski Resort, and home of an independent film festival.
Mountain Queen Mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.97333° or 37° 58′ 24″ northLongitude
-107.78478° or 107° 47′ 5″ westElevation
12,917 feet (3,937 metres)Open location code
859JX6F8+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 369176603OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Mountain Queen Mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mountain Queen Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Colorado, Ouray County)”
- Cebuano: “Mountain Queen Mine”
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