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Humbug

Occurrence in Summit county in Colorado, United States with commodity Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10017653
MRDS ID DC03967
Record type Site
Current site name Humbug
Alternate or previous names Humbug Stock

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.1345, 39.45693 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blue(hydrologic unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White River National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Summit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 07S 78W 08 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE WERE APPROXIMATED USING BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT'S GGWL (GEOGRAPHIC WELL LOCATOR) PROGRAM FOR THE FOOTAGE CALL: T07S R78W SECTION 08, 2640 FT N, 2640 FT E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COMMODITY SPECIALIST INFO: MO

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ferrimolybdite Ore
Molybdenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Glacial drift
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Amax, Inc.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HORTON, FEDERICK W., 1916, MOLYBDENUM; ITS ORES AND THEIR CONCENTRATION: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 111, 132 PP.

  • Deposit

    R.U. KING, 1/15/70, MOLY. BASE MAP

  • Deposit

    VOEGELI, PAUL T., SR, AND KING, ROBERT U., 1969, OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OB MOLYBDENUM IN THE SURFACE WATER OF COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 1535-N.

  • Deposit

    1967 DIREXPL AMA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD DUPLICATED MRDS # D000464. THE TWO RECORDS WERE COMBINED AND RECORD # D000464 WAS DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Conservation Division Files, King, R.U. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1991 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Amax, Inc. — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with Cyprus Minerals to form Cyprus Amax in 1993; Cyprus Amax → Phelps Dodge (1999) → Freeport-McMoRan (2007).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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