1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Unnamed Copper Prospect

Occurrence in Moffat county in Colorado, United States with commodity Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094595
MRDS ID D009860
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Copper Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.34651, 40.48774 (WGS84)
Elevation 1926
Relative position 10.4 MILES N 30 E FROM ELK SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moffat(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cross Mountain Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rangely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Moffat

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 006N 098W 12 SW OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR MIDDLE OF CROSS MOUNTAIN ON EAST FLANK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1974)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ACCORDING TO DYNI (1968), BEDS WERE PROSPECTED BECAUSE OF GREENISH COLOR GIVEN TO ROCK BY GLAUCONITE. IF CU MINERALS ARE PRESENT, THEY COULD BE OXIDIZED TO MALACHITE, AZURITE, AND PERHAPS BROCHANTITE, SIMILAR TO OCCURRENCES IN BLUE MTNS AREA TO WEST

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Glauconite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Lodore Formation;Madison Limestone And Older Rocks
    Rock description Lodore Formation;Madison Limestone And Older Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Madison Limestone and Lodore Fm
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Inta Uplift, Axial Basin Arch
Type of structure Local
Structure description Cross Mountain Anticline, Cross Mountain Fault, East Fault, Lily Park Syncline, Axial Basin Anticline

Ore body information

  • Strike BEDS N 10 W
    Dip BEDS 48 NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cross Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DYNI, J.R., 1968, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE ELK SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-702

  • Deposit

    KANIZAY, S.P., 1955, GEOLOGY OF CROSS MOUNTAIN, MOFFAT COUNTY, COLORADO IN RITZMA, H.R., AND ORIEL, S.S., EDS., GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF NORTHWEST COLORADO: IAPG AND RMAG FIELD CONF. GUIDEBOOK, P. 60-62.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT LIES ON FAULTED EAST LIMB OF NW-SE TRENDING, DOUBLY PLUNGING CROSS MOUNTAIN ANTICLINE. DEPOSIT COULD BE VEIN AS PROSPECT LIES IN HANGING WALL OF EAST FAULT, A HIGH-ANGLE REVERSE FAULT STRIKING APPROX N 13 W AND DIPPING 82 TO 88 SW AND WHICH DISPLACES PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS AND LODORE FM ON WEST AGAINST MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN ROCKS ON EAST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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