1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Villa Grove Deposit

Occurrence in Saguache county in Colorado, United States with commodities Tungsten, Manganese
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013995
MRDS ID D010585
Record type Site
Current site name Villa Grove Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.07392, 38.22501 (WGS84)
Elevation 2515
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 1.9 MILES S27W FROM VILLA GROVE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Saguache(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Graveyard Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saguache(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Luis(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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 Saguache

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 046N 009E 22 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION FROM ORIGINAL CRIB RECORD AND LAT-LONG FROM LEMMON AND TW ETO (1962) INDICATE APPROX SEC. 22, BUT 1X2 GEOLOGIC MAP DOES NOT SHOW TERTIARY VOLCANIS IN THAT SECTION, ONLY PRECAMBRIAN AND MISSISSIPPIAN -ORDOVICIAN SEQUENCE UNDERLYING BONANZA VOLCANICS. ELEV AND LAT-LONG G IVEN ARE FOR CENTER SEC. 22. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MN ORE MINERALS BASED ON PROBABLE SIMILAR OCCURRENCE AT PERSHING M INE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Rawley Andesite;Intrusive Rhyolite
    Rock description Rawley Andesite;Intrusive Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Rawley Rhyolite;Intrusive Rhyolite
    Rock description Rawley Rhyolite;Intrusive Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.07392, 38.22501
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sawatch Range, San Juan Volcanic Field, Rio Grande Rift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Rio Grande Rift, Unnamed Faults, Unnamed Anticline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Villa Grove Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, OGDEN, 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES ; USGS MAP MR-25, P. 10.

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., AND OTHERS, 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 1X2 QUADR ANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEMMON AND TWETO DESCRIBE DEPOSIT AS W IN UNKNOWN FORM CONTAINED IN MN ORE FILLING BRECCIA ALONG FAULTS CUTTING VOLCANIC ROCKS. FM NAME S AND LITHOLOGIES GIVEN BELOW ARE BASED ON MN OCCURRENCE AT PERSHING M INE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Colorado resources

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