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Black Cloud

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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  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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10214748
MRDS ID DC03922
MAS/MILS ID 0080130118
Record type Site
Current site name Black Cloud
Alternate or previous names Blackhawk, misnamed on Gold Hill Quad.
Related records 10017620

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.39349, 40.06309 (WGS84)
Elevation 2402

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Estes Park(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Boulder

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.39349, 40.06309
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner SLIDE MINES INC.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO # 405343, 405348, 405355, 405388, 405391, 40

  • Deposit

    Vanderwilt, 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLOrado.

  • Deposit

    REF USGS PROF PAPER 223 PLATE 3

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-OCT-96 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 26-JUL-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey fixed typos.

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

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