Slate Creek

Occurrence in Routt county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191387
MAS/MILS ID 0081070035
Record type Site
Current site name Slate Creek

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -106.84814, 40.54687 (WGS84)
Elevation 2408
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Routt(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocky Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Routt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -106.84814, 40.54687

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Copper Ridge District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINERAL APPRAISAL OF ROUTT NATIONAL FORESST, COLORADO, USBM

  • Deposit

    OPENFILE MLA ?-93, SAMPLES 249-254.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO SHORT CAVED ADITS AND SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS IN GNEISS AND COPPER-STAINED PEGMATITE. PITS ARE NEAR THE HEADS OF THE FORKS OF SLATE CREEK, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF COPPER RIDGE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-JUN-1993 Neubert, John T. U.S. Bureau of 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.