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Tom Branch Prospects

Occurrence in Huerfano county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Vanadium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013989
MRDS ID D010574
Record type Site
Current site name Tom Branch Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.95139, 37.82585 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
Relative position 12.5 MILES N77E FROM GARDNER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Huerfano(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hayden Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walsenburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trinidad(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Huerfano(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Huerfano

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 025S 068W 36 NW SW OF SE SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG TOM BRANCH 5 MILES NE OF BADITO CONE. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVE N ARE FOR PROSPECT PIT IN SE SW SEC. 36. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Analytical data

Result BASKIN'S CHIP SAMPLE FROM PIT IN DIABASE SILL CONTAINED 0.2 OZ/TON AG, 0.01% CU. CHIP SAMPLE FROM ADIT FACE CONTAINED 0.02% V205. CHIP S AMPLE ACROSS LOWER CONTACT OF DIABASE SILL WITH SEDIMENTARY ROCKS CONT AINED 0.01% CU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase Sill
    Rock description Diabase Sill
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Colorado Group (Graneros Shale);Purgatoire Formation
    Rock description Colorado Group (Graneros Shale);Purgatoire Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.95139, 37.82585
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wet Mountains Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Greenhorn Anticline, Delcarbon Syncline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE PROSPECT PITS; ONE TUNNEL OF UNKNOWN EXTENT DRIVEN GENERALL Y NE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH -CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-558.

  • Deposit

    GASKIN, G.D., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, HUERFANO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM M LA 26-83.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 09-MAY-2005 Keller, John W. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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