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Trout Creek Pass Area

Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, Feldspar
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009120
MRDS ID D001796
Record type Site
Current site name Trout Creek Pass Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.03393, 38.86667 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buena Vista East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Primary
Tantalum Critical Primary
REE Critical Primary
Feldspar Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Euxenite Ore
Monazite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.03393, 38.86667
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEINRICH, E. W., 1948, FLUORITE - RARE EARTH MINERAL PEGMATITES OF CHAFFEE AND FREMONT COUNTIES, COLO. AM. MINERALOGIST, V. 33, NO. 1 -

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRODUCTION OF FELDSPAR ONLY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1975 Parker, Raymond L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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