Starlight #8

Past Producer in Montrose county in Colorado, United States with commodities 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10215617
MAS/MILS ID 0080850480
Record type Site
Current site name Starlight #8
Alternate or previous names Starlight No 8

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.85508, 38.18859 (WGS84)
Elevation 1830
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montrose(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bull Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nucla(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Dolores(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Montrose

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 045 N 018 W 04 NE Colorado

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -108.85508, 38.18859

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner G. A. Estes
    Year 1957

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLM SUR MNGT QUAD

  • Deposit

    COLO BU. OF MINES 1957 RPT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Lansdown 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.