Facts
- MSHA status
- Intermittent since Mar 19, 2025
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Lake County
- State
- Colorado
- Land status (BLM data)
- Private land or land not mapped as public
- Nearest town
- Leadville
- Employees reported
- 4
- Operator
- Mt Elbert Mining Co LLC
- Coordinates
- 39.1233, -106.3669
- MSHA mine ID
- 0504855
Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.
Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.
History and geology (USGS)
- USGS site name
- Derry Ranch Placers
- USGS status
- Occurrence
- Commodities
- Gold
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10016293 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Box Creek Placer 0 mi · intermittent
- Alma Placer 20 mi · intermittent
- Snowstorm 20 mi · active
- Hector Placer Mine 20 mi · intermittent
- HP 300 (Crusher 4) 25 mi · intermittent
- Gold Links 34 mi · temporarily idled
- Lucky Strike Mine & Mill 43 mi · temporarily idled
- Bates-Hunter Mine 66 mi · non-producing