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Buffalo Head Prospect

Past Producer in Moffat county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101817
MRDS ID D009700
Record type Site
Current site name Buffalo Head Prospect
Alternate or previous names Buffalo Head Mining Co. Claim No. 6

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.97373, 40.52719 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 4.8 MILES N 87 W OF LAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moffat(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lay(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(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 007N 094W 29 NE OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uranophane Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) (See Back)

Analytical data

Result BACKGROUND RADIATION- 0.04 MR/HR
Result RANGE OF RADIOACTIVITY 0.16 TO 0.4 MR/HR

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.97373, 40.52719
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Washakie Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Lay Syncline, Maybell Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Maybell District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • AS OF 1971, 96 TONS HAD BEEN MINED AT GRADES OF 0.11% U308, PRODUCING 206 LBS. OF U308, AND 0.01% V205, PRODUCING 10 LBS OF V205 (NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 Banke, Carl M. Colorado Geological Survey

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.