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Mount Antero claims

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodity Beryllium
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  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. Bibliographic references
  9. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10311057
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Antero claims
Alternate or previous names Cardwell claims, North American Beryllium Corp. claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.24893, 38.66778 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Antero(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(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 Chaffee

Comments on the location information

  • Prospect is high (13,800 ft) on the south ridge of Mount Antero, mostly in the SE/4 sec. 13, T 51 N, R 6 E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • A 1979 field examination and sample analyses indicated anomalous, but low grade, beryllium concentrations. (Sunshine files, 1979

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.24893, 38.66778
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Beryllium occurs in pegmatites, veins, and granite and greisen bodies on the south and SW slopes of Mount Antero. To date, these deposits are of interest only to gem and mineral collectors.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.

  • Deposit

    Adams, J. W., 1953, Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D, p. 95-119.

  • Deposit

    Dings, M. G., and Robinson, C. S., 1957, Geology and ore deposits of the Garfield quadrangle, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 289, 110 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-06 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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