Banker Mine

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Bismuth
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090547
MRDS ID D000405
Record type Site
Current site name Banker Mine
Related records 10141748

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.45061, 38.96666 (WGS84)
Elevation 3170
Relative position 2 MILES SOUTH OF WINFIELD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Winfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(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

Pike and San Isabel 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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 012S 081W 32 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Bismuth Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismuthinite Ore
Molybdenite Ore

Analytical data

Result ASSAYED 10 OR 15% MOS2

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.45061, 38.96666

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Winfield Dist.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WORCESTER, 1919, MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS OF COLO: COLO. G.S. BULL. 14

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1974 King, Robert U. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

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