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Blue Mountain Group

Past Producer in Moffat county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Copper
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013405
MRDS ID D009678
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Mountain Group
Alternate or previous names Claims: Blue Mountains 4, Skull Creek Carnotite Deposit
Related records 10118327

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.69263, 40.27913 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 1.3 MILES N 45 DEGREES W OF TOWN OF SKULL CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moffat(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skull Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rangely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower White(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 004N 101W 35 N OF NE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Malachite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Curtis Formation;Entrada Sandstone
    Rock description Curtis Formation;Entrada Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.69263, 40.27913
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Uinta Uplift, Uinta Basin, Yampa Plateau, Douglas Creek Arch, Piceance Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Red Wash Syncline, Willow Creek Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Skull Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • FROM THE BLUE MOUNTAINS NO. 4 CLAIM, AS OF 1971, 254 TONS HAD BEEN MINED AT GRADES OF 0.21% U308 AND 1.02% V205, PRODUCING 1084 LBS OF U308 AND 5158 LBS OF V205 (NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 Banke, Carl M. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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