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Bidwell Claims

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101857
MRDS ID D010546
Record type Site
Current site name Bidwell Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.43253, 40.64665 (WGS84)
Elevation 2509
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 19.2 MILES N78W FROM FORT COLLINS, Within 0.5-Mile Raduis

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Larimer(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Narrows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Collins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cache La Poudre(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arapaho and Roosevelt 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 Larimer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008N 072W 23 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • IN DIVIDE AREA BETWEEN SKIN GULCH AND POVERTY GULCH. ELEV AND LAT- LONG GIVEN ARE FOR CENTER SEC. 23. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TWETO (1960) CITES NO (POWELLITE) GENERALLY OCCURRING WITH CACHE L A POUDRE RIVER AREA W DEPOSITS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Aplite
    Rock description Pegmatite;Aplite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Migmatitic Biotite Schist;Amphibolite
    Rock description Migmatitic Biotite Schist;Amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Front Range Uplift, Sherman Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Poudre River Shear Zone, Skin Gulch Shear Zone, Poverty Flats Synf Orm, South Fork Antiform, Clark Synform

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Stove Prairie Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • ORIGINAL CRIB RECORD CITES PRODUCTION OF 10 ST WORE, YEAR UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABBOTT, J.T., 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BIG NARROWS QUADRANGLE, LAR IMER COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1323.

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, 1960, SCHEELITE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF COLORA DO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 55, NO. 7, P. 1406-1428.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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