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Primos Mine

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10017194
MRDS ID DC03056
MAS/MILS ID 80130659
Record type Site
Current site name Primos Mine
Alternate or previous names Primos
Related records 10165802

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.51833, 39.9765 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Shaft shown and labeled on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nederland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 01S 73W 11 SE4 of NE4 Colorado
6th Principal 01S 073W 12 N 1/2 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • Mine is clearly labeled in Sec. 11. Original record listed location in Sec. 12, so that information (along with quarter section info) has been preserved in a second PLSS entry. It is unverified information.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.51833, 39.9765
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Boulder County Tungsten District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner PRIMOS CHEM CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS NEDERLAND QUAD TOPO MAP, 1942, 7 1/2 MIN

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 10,62

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO[sitory] # 407490

  • Deposit

    CSM [Colorado School of Mines] 96. [A.B. Wilson unable to determine what this means.]

Comments on the references

  • Cryptic reference citation to "CSM 96". A.B. Wilson unable to determine what this means, although CSM almost certainly stands for Colorado School of Mines.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2007-05-29 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2014-01-14 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record
Reporter 1983-11-17 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0080130659 = 10165802

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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