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Utica

Prospect 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. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10017617
MRDS ID DC03919
MAS/MILS ID 80130818
Record type Site
Current site name Utica
Related records 10190324

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -105.5025, 40.06761 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position Coordinates for visible dumps on satelllite imagery where location shown on pl. 1 in Worcester. 2 dumps may be Upper and Lower Utica.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ward(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Estes Park(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(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

LG(Federal land areas administered by LG)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 01N 72W 7 NW4 of NW4 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Deleted MAS record (MAS 0080130818 = newMRDS 10190324) listed Au (gold) and Cu (copper) as additional primary commodities and Pb (lead) and Zn (zinc) as commodities of tertiary consideration. Based on the cited references, this can not be confirmed. Therefore, the additional commodities were not added to the list of commodities.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Huebnerite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -105.5025, 40.06761
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • HUBNERITE IN GOLD SULPHIDE VEIN (ColoMiningFund, 1960, p. 72)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ward

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Joseph K. Davidson
    Year 1960

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • 900 FT. SHAFT WITH MANY LEVELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STATE OF COLO. METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1960, TUNGSTEN MINES OF COLO.

  • Deposit

    BLM COLO CONNECTING SHEETS

  • Deposit

    WORCESTER, 1921, COLO. GEOL. SUR. BULL, 21, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62

  • Deposit

    COLO BOM 1974 LIST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-03-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2007-05-21 Melton, Greg U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2014-01-07 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 0080130818 = 10190324

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.