Black Canyon Beryl Prospect

Prospect in Gunnison county in Colorado, United States with commodities Beryllium, Feldspar, Mica
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. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10287926
MRDS ID D011381
MAS/MILS ID 0080510360
Record type Site
Current site name Black Canyon Beryl Prospect
Alternate or previous names Unknown
Related records 10090051

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.46124, 38.4239 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gunnison(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Curecanti Needle(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gunnison(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Gunnison

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Feldspar Tertiary
Mica Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.46124, 38.4239

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:MINOBRAS 1974

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.