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Last Day Claim

Past Producer in Rio Blanco county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, 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. Materials information
  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 10090131
MRDS ID D009693
Record type Site
Current site name Last Day Claim
Alternate or previous names Urin Mining Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.69816, 40.12858 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 13.4 MILES N 61 DEGREES E FROM MEEKER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rio Blanco(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thornburgh(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Meeker(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper White(hydrologic unit)

White-Yampa(hydrologic accounting unit)

White-Yampa(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 Rio Blanco

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 002N 092W 22 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tyuyamunite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.69816, 40.12858
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description White River Uplift, Axial Basin Arch
Type of structure Local
Structure description Danforth Hills Anticline, Sulphur Creek Syncline, Unnamed Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Coal Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • THE LAST DAY MINE, AS OF 1971, HAD YIELDED 1,040 TONS OF ORE AT GRADES OF 0.28% U308 AND 1.13% V205, PRODUCING 5,836 LBS OF U308 AND 23,581 LBS OF V205 (NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 Banke, Carl M. Colorado Geological Survey

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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