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Clover Gulch Placers

Past Producer in Mesa county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013201
MRDS ID D009354
Record type Site
Current site name Clover Gulch Placers
Alternate or previous names Clover Gulch and Kimball Creek Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.98343, 38.25861 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position 1 TO 4 MILES NW OF COLLBRAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ouray(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Government Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Uncompahgre(hydrologic unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic accounting unit)

Gunnison(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison 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 Mesa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 009S 095W 22,23,27,28 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • PLACER CLAIMS ORIGINALLY STAKED ALONG CLOVER GULCH AND KIMBALL CREEK. LAT-LONG GIVEN IS CS 22. DEPOSIT MAY EXTEND INTO SECS. 02, 03, 10, 11, 14, AND 15 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1980; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MONTROSE 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result REPORTED ASSAYS OF $138 TO $150/TON OR (AT $20.65/OZ) 6.68 TO 7.26 OZ/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvial Facies-Alluvial, Eolian, And Lake Sand, Silt, And Clay;Grand Mesa Formation-Terrace Gravel
    Rock description Alluvial Facies-Alluvial, Eolian, And Lake Sand, Silt, And Clay;Grand Mesa Formation-Terrace Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.98343, 38.25861
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Piceance Creek Basin, Gunnison Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Piceance Creek Basin, Montrose Syncline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925

Mining district

District name Battlement Mesa Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • "A RUSH TO THE RECENT GOLD DISCOVERIES NEAR COLLBRAN HAS STARTED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. SCORES OF MEN ARE COMING IN FROM DE BEQUE ON EVERY STAGE AND THE MINING CAMP IN CLOVER GULCH IS TAKING ON THE APPEARANCE OF A TENTED CITY. OVER 150 CLAIMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN STAKED, AND THE CLAIMS EXTEND FOR 14 MILES UP AND DOWN CLOVER GULCH, WHILE PROSPECTORS ARE NOW STAKING OTHER CLAIMS ON KIMBALL CREEK. THE ADVANCE PROSPECTORS FROM THE EAGLE DISTRICT REPORT THAT THEY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY SCORE OF OTHER PROSPECTORS IF EARLY REPORTS OF DISCOVERIES ARE BORNE OUT. ADDITIONAL ASSAYS OF ORE HAVE BEEN MADE AND SHOW FROM $138 TO $150 PER TON, WITH INDICATIONS OF A STREAK OF URANIUM. MERCHANTS OF COLLBRAN HAVE ORDERED LARGE QUANTITIES OF TENTS AND OTHER CAMP SUPPLIES." (MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS, 1913)

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAIMS WERE MOST LIKELY LOCATED IN ALLUVIUM ALONG CLOVER GULCH IN SECS. 22, 27, AND 28. MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS ARTICLE STATES THAT CLAIMS EXTENDED FOR 14 MILES BUT CREEK VALLEY IS ONLY 5 MILES LONG, TERMINATING ON LOWER BENCH OF BATTLEMENT MESA. VALLEY ALLUVIUM MAY EXTEND MOST OF THIS DISTANCE, BUT YEEND MAPPED IT ONLY AS FAR NORTH AS SW/4 SEC. 22. THOSE ON KIMBALL CREEK COULD BE LOCATED ON ALLUVIUM IN SECS. 11 AND 26, BUT DEPOSIT MAY INCLUDE PROMINENT TERRACE GRAVELS ON EAST SIDE OF CREEK ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH. PLACER GOLD MOST LIKELY WAS DERIVED FROM WEATHERING AND EROSION OF FOSSIL PLACERS WITHIN PALEOCENE-EOCENE BEDROCK FORMATIONS THAT FORM BATTLEMENT MESA--WASATCH FM OR UINTA FM. THESE OLDER SEDIMENTS COULD HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM MINERALIZED AREAS IN THE PRESENT SAWATCH RANGE AND WEST ELK MOUNTAINS.
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY 1900 S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

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