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Two Buttes Vanadium Occurrence

Occurrence in Prowers county in Colorado, United States with commodity Vanadium
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  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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012890
MRDS ID D008887
Record type Site
Current site name Two Buttes Vanadium Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -102.54215, 37.65947 (WGS84)
Elevation 1436
Relative position 18 MILES N 15 E FROM SPRINGFIELD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Prowers(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Two Buttes Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Two Buttes Reservoir(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

La Junta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Two Butte(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Prowers

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 027S 046W 25 SE OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PYROXENE ANALYSIS YIELDED 0.043% V205; 0.036% V203; 51.5% SIO2

Analytical data

Result 5 GRAM SAMPLE YIELDED 0.04% V205
Result 0.033% V203
Result 50.5% SIO2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite
    Rock unit name Taloga Formation;Entrada Sandstone
    Rock description Taloga Formation;Entrada Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Las Animas Arch, Sierra Grande Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Buttes Laccolithic Dome

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 W TO N 70 W
    Dip 90
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 701.04M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HILLEBRAND WED THE TERM SYENITE, BUT SANDERS REFERRED TO IT AS BASALT. INSUFFICIENT CHEMICAL ANALYSES TO CLASSIFY IT EXACTLY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APPROX. 50 DIKES REPORTED IN THE AREA. CRUDELY DISCERNIBLE SUBRADIAL ORIENTATION OF DIKES FROM TWO BUTTES LACCOLITHIC INTRUSION.
Deposit DIKES ARE RELATED TO TWO BUTTES LACCOLITHIC STOCK CLASSIFIED AS BIOTITE ANDESITE (?) PORPHYRY OF POSSIBLE LATE MIOCENE AGE. SANDERS' MAP SHOWS SEVERAL DIKES ACROSS COUNTY LINE IN BACA COUNTY. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Banke, Carl M. (Schwochow, Stephen D) Colorado Geological Survey

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