Mountain Goat

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Uranium, Vanadium
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10117779
MRDS ID DC03237
MAS/MILS ID 0080130041
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Goat
Related records 10108215

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.63449, 39.99526 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

East Portal(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(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 Boulder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 001 S 074 W 02 NWNW Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Autunite Unknown
Biotite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Chlorite Unknown
Feldspar Unknown
Fluorite Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Hornblende Unknown
Molybdenite Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Biotitic gneiss, schist, and migmatite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N40E
    Dip 90N
    Length 500M
    Width 1M
    Depth to top 15.3M
    Field Value
    Primary mode of Origin UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N40E:90N
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Date of Last Modification 790430

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Front Range

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Frontier Mining
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COLO BOM 1956 LIST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-1984 Minecom U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 03-AUG-0007 Melton, Greg 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.