Idarado Mine
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The Idarado Mine was a mining operation in the San Juan Mountains of Ouray County, Colorado near the now-ghost town of Guston, producing primarily lead, zinc and silver along with small amounts of gold and copper. The mine is within the Sneffels-Red Mountain-Telluride mining district. The remains of the operation are visible from the Million Dollar Highway, north of Red Mountain Pass, between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. The tunnels of the Idarado extend some 5 miles (8 km) west under 13,000 foot mountains to the Pandora Mill near Telluride, a trip of more than 60 miles (100 km) by highway.
Idarado Mine trestle
Mine waste, below the Yankee Girl mine on Red Mountain No. 2 near Guston.
Gold in quartz and sphalerite, detail of historic slabbed ore specimen from the Idarado Mine, collected in 1927. Click on photo and scroll down for other views of this slab.
Red Mountain Pass elevation 11,018 ft (3,358 m) is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado
in the United States.
Lower gorge, Red Mountain Pass; view from HWY 550 near Ouray
Red Mountains from Ironton Park; Red Mountain Pass near the Ouray-Silverton Stage Road, c. 1901
Narrow stretch of highway over Red Mountain Pass.