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Whitecliff 1-6 Claims

Prospect in Huerfano county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10311027
Record type Site
Current site name Whitecliff 1-6 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.26474, 37.87308 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Huerfano(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Creager Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanca Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trinidad(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Huerfano(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Huerfano

Comments on the location information

  • Located about six miles northwest of the town of Gardner.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • No uranium minerals noted when prospect was examined in 1966, but radioactivity levels were 0.12 to 0.3 mr/per hour.

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonite-stained sandstone and shale

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 204
USGS model code 30c
Deposit model name Sandstone U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Farisita Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Arkose
    Rock unit name Farisita Conglomerate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Farisita Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.26474, 37.87308
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Uranium and vanadium mineralization occurs in lenses of limonitic, carbonaceous sandstone and arkose in the Farisita Conglomerate. Nelson-Moore and others (1978) report that the unit has good potential to host additional significant uranium deposits.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gardner area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Nelson-Moore, J.L., Collins, D.B., and Hornbaker, A.L., 1978, Radioactive mineral occurrences of Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1054 p., 12 pl.

  • Geology

    Johnson, R.B., 1969, Geologic map of the Trinidad quadrangle, south-central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-558, scale 1:250000

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-MAY-2005 Keller, John W. Colorado Geological Survey

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