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Blevins Placer

Past Producer in Moffat county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013403
MRDS ID D009675
Record type Site
Current site name Blevins Placer
Alternate or previous names Blevins Dredge

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.82067, 40.63275 (WGS84)
Elevation 1978
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 8 MILES N 24 E FROM LAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moffat(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yampa(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)

Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Moffat

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008N 093W 22 N2 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ON WEST SIDE OF LAY CREEK AT JACKRABBIT SPRINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1974)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result (SEE LAST PAGE)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Unconsolidated Deposits--Alluvium;Tipton Tongue Of Green River Formation
    Rock description Unconsolidated Deposits--Alluvium;Tipton Tongue Of Green River Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.82067, 40.63275
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Washakie Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Washakie Basin

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1887
Year of first production 1905

Mining district

District name Lay District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Blevins Mining Co.
    First year 1906

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 4.047HA

Comments on the workings information

  • DREDGE OPERATED ON APPROX 10 ACRES. FUEL WAS SUPPLIED FROM CUT IN COAL BANK APPROX. ONE MILE NORTH OF DREDGE SITE IN NW SE SEC. 15

Comments on development

  • 60-HP 1200-YD/DAY-CAPACITY DREDGE BUILT ON SITE IN 1905, 700 GPM WATER FOR DREDGE PUMPED FROM JACKRABBIT SPRINGS. FUEL SUPPLIED FROM CUT IN COAL BANK ONE MILE NORTH OF MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARKER, B. H., JR., 1974, THE PLACERS OF MOFFAT COUNTY, IN GOLD PLACERS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES QUART., V. 69, NO. 4, P. 150-168.

  • Deposit

    GALE, H. S., 1908, GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS NEAR LAY, ROUTT COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 340, P. 84-95.

  • Deposit

    TWETO, OGDEN, 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CRAIG 1 X 2 QUADRANGLE, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO: USGS MAP I-972

  • Deposit

    FLECK, HERMAN, AND HALDANE, W. G., 1907, A STUDY OF THE URANIUM AND VANADIUM BELTS OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: COLORADO DIV. MINES BIENN. REPT., 1905-06, P. 120-121.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit (SEE LAST PAGE)

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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