Airborne Anomaly 18

Occurrence in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodity Uranium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012881
MRDS ID D008873
Record type Site
Current site name Airborne Anomaly 18

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.04973, 38.24251 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 2.0 MILES N 81 E OF WETRAORE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wetmore(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
0215 069W 12 NE OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG JACKSON HILL NEAR CUSTER/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO VISIBLE MINERALIZATION; DISSEMINATED

Analytical data

Result RADIATION 2 TO 3 TIMES BACKGROUND

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Pierre Shale, Possibly Sharon Springs Member
    Rock description Pierre Shale, Possibly Sharon Springs Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) Niobrara Fm

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wet Mountains
Type of structure Local
Structure description Chandler Syncline

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SHARON SPRINGS MEMBER OF THE PIERRE SHALE HAS ANOMALOUS RADIOACTIVITY NEARLY EVERYWHERE THAT IT IS ENCOUNTERED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wet Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B. AND HORNBAKER, A.L., A78, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 40, P. 119.

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C. AND WOBOS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10 X 20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1982 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.