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Sturbaum-Fister Mine

Past Producer in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013375
MRDS ID D009636
Record type Site
Current site name Sturbaum-Fister Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.7203, 38.42195 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682
Relative position 3.8 MILES N 22 W OF COTOPAXI

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Arkansas Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Fremont

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 048N 011E 11 SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED, NEAR ARKANSAS MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granodiorite
    Rock description Granodiorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Harding Sandstone
    Rock description Harding Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.7203, 38.42195
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northern Wet Mountains, Canon City Embayment, Thirty Nine Mile Volcanic Field
Type of structure Local
Structure description Cotopaxi Fault

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults, Fault Intersections; Shear Zones; Organic Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1967
Year of first production 1967
Year of last production 1968

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Stanley Sturbaum, David And John Fister
    Home office Canon City, Co.
    First year 1968

Comments on the production information

  • ORE SHIPPED TO CANON CITY, COTTER MILL

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES INSPECTION RECORDS, 1968

  • Deposit

    TAYLOR, R. B., SCOTT, G. R., WOBUS, R. A. AND EPIS, R. C., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COTOPAXI 15-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP I-900, 1: 62,500.

  • Production

    COLORADO DIVISION OF MINES

Reporter information

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

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