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.

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 14,152-foot mountain located in the Mosquito Range of central Colorado. It is one of the state's 58 fourteeners and is commonly climbed by hikers because of its relatively easy trail. 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″ north

Longitude

-106.11863° or 106° 7′ 7″ west

Elevation

11,365 feet (3,464 metres)

Open location code

85FM8V7J+4G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369162773

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5440922

Wikidata ID

Q7655363

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Satellite Map

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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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