Camp Creek Claims

Past Producer in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10142618
MRDS ID DC01732
MAS/MILS ID 0080570016
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek Claims
Alternate or previous names Alcoa Shaft
Included sites Fluorine-Camp Creek vein

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.26002, 40.95217 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Northgate(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Platte Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 011N 079W 04 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.26002, 40.95217

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northgate

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Alcoa - Aluminum Co. Of America
  • Type Operator
    Owner Kramer Mines, Inc.
    Year 1947
    First year 1943
    Last year 1944

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Steven, T.A., 1960, Geology and fluorspar deposits, Northgate district, Colorado: USGS Bull. 1082-F, p. 323-422.

  • Deposit

    Neubert, J.T., and Dersch, J.S., 1994, MINERAL APPRAISAL OF ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO: USBM MLA 13-94, p. 64 p., 6 appendices.

  • Deposit

    WARNE, J.D., 1947, NORTHGATE FLUORSPAR, JACKSON COUNTY, COLO.: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS RI-4106, 23 p.

  • Deposit

    COLO. SCH. MINES QUART., V. 44, NO. 2, P. 187.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62.

  • Deposit

    Cox, D.C., Benson, W.E.B., Steven, T.A., and Van Alstine, R.E., 1948, Flurospar deposits of the Northgate District, Jackson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Strategic Minerals Investigations Report 3-220, 14 p. [(200)St8pr no.3-220]

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS PROPERTY IS THE NORTHWEST, AND LESS DEVELOPED, EXTENSION OF THE FLUORINE MINE (MILS ENTRY 0080570030). THE AREA BETWEEN THE CAMP CREEK AND FLUORINE MINES HAS BEEN TRENCHED EXTENSIVELY. TRENCHES ALSO EXTEND NORTHWEST FROM THE CAMP CREEK SHAFT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-AUG-93 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 16-JUN-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10091124 and 10288434 (Kramer Mines)

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.