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Garfield Mine

Past Producer in Garfield county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Lead, Selenium, Chromium
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013443
MRDS ID D009734
Record type Site
Current site name Garfield Mine
Related records 10142187

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.7051, 39.65692 (WGS84)
Elevation 1905
Relative position 9.2 MILES N 27 E OF RIFLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rifle Falls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Glenwood Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Colorado Headwaters-Plateau(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 004S 092W 34 NW OF NE OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON RIDGE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF EAST RIFLE CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Selenium Primary
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Montroseite Ore
Pascoite Ore
Roscoelite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Entrada Sandstone;Navajo Sandstone
    Rock description Entrada Sandstone;Navajo Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.7051, 39.65692
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description White River Uplift, Grand Hogback Monocline, Piceance Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Grand Hogback Monocline, Unnamed Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929

Mining district

District name Rifle District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Oral C. Clark
    First year 1975
  • Type Owner
    Owner Union Carbide Corp.
    First year 1975

Comments on the production information

  • AS OF 1971, 6.230 TONS OF ORE HAD BEEN MINED AT A GRADE OF 0.05% U308 AND 1.51% V205, PRODUCING 6,756 LBS OF U308 AND 188,498 LBS OF V205 (NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978). ESTIMATED CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR U308 AND V205 ARE BASED ON THESE AEC FIGURES THROUGH 1971 PLUS ANNUAL TOTALS FROM COLO. DIV. MINES, 1973-1975.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit D002219 HAS BEEN MERGED INTO THIS RECORD AND DELETED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Banke, Carl M. (Hasler, J. William) Colorado 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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