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Knob Hill

Prospect in Fremont county in Colorado, United States with commodities Feldspar, Mica, Garnet
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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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018679
MRDS ID DC05866
Record type Site
Current site name Knob Hill

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.77753, 38.44945 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 3 MI. N. OF VALLIE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fremont(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Howard(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 48N 11E 05 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SE slope of Kiln Gulch, 3 miles north of Vallie railroad siding and Arkansas River (Hanley and others, 1950).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Feldspar Primary
Mica Primary
Garnet Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Ore
Garnet Ore
Muscovite Ore
Quartz Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 32
USGS model code 13
Deposit model name Pegmatites

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Paleoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.77753, 38.44945
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name cotopaxi pegmatite region

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Earl Macdaniel Of Canon City And Glen Wilkerson Of Coaldale
    First year 1941

Comments on the production information

  • Yielded 60 tons of feldspar - too small to be economic (Hanley and others, 1960)

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 02-JUN-2004 Keller, John W. Colorado Geological Survey

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

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