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Picuris Placer Mine

Occurrence in Chaffee county in Colorado, United States with commodity 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10018163
MRDS ID DC04986
Record type Site
Current site name Picuris Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.07199, 38.80917 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position 4 MILES S57E OF BUENA VISTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buena Vista East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(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 Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 14S 78W 23,25,26,29,36 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SPECIFIC LOCATIONS GIVEN FOR INTERSECTION OF SECTIONS 23, 25 AND 26. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.07199, 38.80917
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE GEOLOGY IN THIS AREA CONSISTS LARGELY OF GLACIAL SAND AND GRAVELS, PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM, TERTIARY DIKES (RHYODACITE AND DACITE), OLIGOCENE TUFFS, AND PRECAMBRIAN GRANODIORITE AND QUARTZ DIORITE (BOULDER CREEK AGE). IT IS NOT KNOWN IN WHICH FORMATION(S) THE PLACERS LIE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buena Vista Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERWILT, J.W., 1947, MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BOARD, P. 472

  • Deposit

    SCOTT, G.R., 1975, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BUENA VISTA QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE AND PARK COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS MAP MF-657, 1:62,500.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 1,64

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1983 Collins, Donna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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