| Deposit ID | 10304503 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC00102 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 80130417 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Illinois |
| Related records | 10108022 |
| Point of reference | Ore Body |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -105.52583, 39.96956 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 2621 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
| Relative position | Shaft labeled on topo. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Boulder(county)
Colorado(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Nederland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Denver West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)
South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)
South Platte(hydrologic subregion)
Missouri(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Colorado | Boulder |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Principal | 01S | 073W | 11 | SE | Colorado |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Ferberite | Ore |
| Model code | 46 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 15a |
| Deposit model name | W veins |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||
| |||
| Ore Body (1) | -105.52583, 39.96956 |
|---|
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Boulder Tungsten |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc. |
| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | VCA |
| Year | 1960 |
| Last year | 1952 |
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Wolf Tongue Mining Co. |
| Year | 1945 |
| Year | 1943 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1905-1943 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | ore | ||||||||||||||
| Ore mined | 9968.96mt | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 80130417 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC00102 | MAS references MRDS |
MINE MAP REPO # 402533-402540 402543
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1945, Boulder County Tungsten District, Boulder County, Colorado: U.S. Bureau of Mines War Minerals Report 404, 22 p.
Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board, 1960, Tungsten Mines of Colorado: State of Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board, 76 p.
Lovering, T.S., and Goddard, E.N., 1950, Geology and ore deposits of the Fraont Range, Colorado: USGS Prof. Paper 223, 319 p.
SHARPS, 1965, Tungsten in Colorado: COLO SCH MINES MIN IND BULL, V. 8, NO. 5, 16 p.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | MOST TUNGSTEN VEINS 6IN TO 3FT THICK (copied from deleted record 10108022) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 1983-11-17 | Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) | U.S. Bureau of Mines | |
| Editor | 2007-05-29 | Melton, Greg | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 2013-12-11 | Wilson, Anna B | U.S. Geological Survey | merged and deleted duplicate records. Added references. Corrected and added info. |
| Reporter | 1972-07-01 | Conservation Division Files | U.S. Geological Survey | old MAS record DC00192 |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.
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