Little Star Claims

Past Producer in Moffat county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  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 10013407
MRDS ID D009680
Record type Site
Current site name Little Star Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.61986, 40.35107 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 6.5 MILES N 26 E 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

M F Mountain(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 005N 100W 27 NW OF SE OF SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1962 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore

Analytical data

Result RANGE OF RADIOACTIVITY-0.6 TO 4.0 MR/HR

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.61986, 40.35107

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

  • AS OF 1971, 1,671 TONS OF ORE HAD BEEN MINED AT GRADES OF 0.23% U308 AND 0.21 % V205, PRODUCING 7,597 LBS OF V308 AND 7,017 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.

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.