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Horn Peak Claims

Past Producer in Custer county in Colorado, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087732
MRDS ID D008874
Record type Site
Current site name Horn Peak Claims
Alternate or previous names Little Horn Peak Claims, Reese Claims, Austin Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.63614, 38.03918 (WGS84)
Elevation 3658
Relative position 9.6 MILES S 46 W FROM WESTCLIFFE, Unsurveyed Area, Unsurveyed Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Saguache(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rito Alto Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canon City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pueblo(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

Rio Grande National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Sangre de Cristo Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 023S 073W 19,30 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED, LOCATIONS ESTIMATED; NEAR HORN PEAK AND COTTONWOOD CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1976

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BLACK URANIUM MINERAL OCCURS BETWEEN SAND GRAINS

Analytical data

Result .70% U308 AVERAGE;

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Sangre De Cristo Formation
    Rock description Sangre De Cristo Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.63614, 38.03918
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sangre De Cristo Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Anticline Trending Nw-Se; Fault Cuts Anticline (Cotton Lake Anticline, Marble Mtn. Fault)

Ore body information

  • Length 304.8M

Comments on the geologic information

  • CRINOIDS AND BRACHIOPODS PRESENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Horn Peak Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-82 Collins, Donna B. Colorado Geological Survey

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

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