Sweet Home Mine
Sweet Home Mine is a mine near Alma, Colorado, United States. It was founded in 1873 as a silver mine. It is best known as the source of the famous rhodochrosite crystals "Alma King", displayed at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and "Alma Rose", displayed at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Oregon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Colorado, United States of America, United States of America
- Address: CO
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Bross and Mount Democrat.
Mount Bross
Peak
Photo: Matt Vincent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Bross is a high mountain summit in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,178-foot fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 4.1 miles northwest by north of the Town of Alma in Park County, Colorado, United States. Mount Bross is situated 1½ miles north of Sweet Home Mine.
Mount Democrat
Peak
Photo: Jeremiah LaRocco, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Democrat is a high mountain summit in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,152.3-foot fourteener is located 5.4 miles northwest of the Town of Alma, Colorado, United States, near the Continental Divide separating San Isabel National Forest and Lake County from Pike National Forest and Park County. Mount Democrat is situated 2 miles northwest of Sweet Home Mine.
Mount Buckskin
Peak
Photo: Thomson200, CC0.
Mount Buckskin is a high mountain summit in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,872-foot thirteener is located in Pike National Forest, 4.9 miles west-northwest of the Town of Alma in Park County, Colorado, United States. Mount Buckskin is situated 2 miles west of Sweet Home Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alma and Alma Junction.
Alma
Village
Photo: DrunkDriver, Public domain.
Alma is a statutory town in Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 296 at the 2020 United States census. Alma is a part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. Alma is situated 3½ miles southeast of Sweet Home Mine.
Alma Junction
Locality
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
Alma Junction was the terminal of the Fairplay–Alma branch of the Colorado and Southern railway in Colorado in the United States, which has been abandoned since the early 20th century. Alma Junction is situated 4½ miles southeast of Sweet Home Mine.
Sweet Home Mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Park, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.31277° or 39° 18′ 46″ northLongitude
-106.11863° or 106° 7′ 7″ westElevation
11,365 feet (3,464 metres)Open location code
85FM8V7J+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 369162773OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Sweet Home Mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sweet Home Mine (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Colorado, Park County)”
- Cebuano: “Sweet Home Mine”
- French: “mine Sweet Home”
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