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Beta Company Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10214973
MRDS ID DC01704
MAS/MILS ID 0080570097
Record type Site
Current site name Beta Company Mine
Alternate or previous names Non Magnetic Fluorspar Mine, Beta Company Shaft
Related records 10108130

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.61173, 40.69137 (WGS84)
Elevation 3292
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Approx. 5 km NW of Crystal Mine. See fig. 26 in MLA 13-94.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pitchpine Mountain(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 08N 082W 4, 9 Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.61173, 40.69137
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Crystal

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Walter L. Broomhall

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MINERAL EXAM. FILE

  • Deposit

    Hail, W.J., Jr., 1965, Geology of norhtwetern North Park, Colorado: USGS Bull. 1188, 133 p.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    CONS. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,62.

  • Deposit

    Snyder, G.L., Patten, L.L., and Daniels, J.J., 1987, Mineral resources of the Mount Zirkel Wilderness and northern Park Range vicinity, Jackson and Routt counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1554, 236 p.

Comments on the references

  • Reference to p. 124 of Bull 1188 is cryptic and vague. There is no description in the Bulletin of the "mines" in this area other than the Crystal mine.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-AUG-93 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 16-JUN-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey DC01704 = newMRDS 10108130, merged and deleted.

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