Colorado Belle Group

Unknown in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Manganese
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10132498
MRDS ID W900393
MAS/MILS ID 560070318
Record type Site
Current site name Colorado Belle Group
Alternate or previous names Colorado Bell Group, inlcudes Colorado Belle, Colorado Belle #2, Laura N., Beacon Hill, Pikes Peak, Arequia claims, also includes South Wyoming Copper Co. (? in part).

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
Ore Body -106.81806, 41.14972 (WGS84) 2426 2000 On Miner Creek, 4 mi. south of Encampment., about 1 mi., about 1 mi.
(click for info)
Main Entrance -106.82389, 41.145 (WGS84) south prospect
Main Entrance -106.82389, 41.145 (WGS84) 50 ft. shaft.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Encampment(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saratoga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 14N 084W 26, 27, 34 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.81806, 41.14972
Main Entrance (2) -106.82389, 41.145
Main Entrance (3) -106.82389, 41.145

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Encampment District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Home Run Copper Mining Co. (1906)
    Year 1906

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50 [revised ed.], p. 46.

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1959, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 42.

  • Deposit

    Hausel, 1997, Copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and associated metal deposits of Wyoming: Wyoming State Geological Survey Bull. 70, p. 165, 180.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Claims include: Colorado Belle; Colorado Belle #2; Laura N.; Beacon Hill; Pikes Peak; Arequia; South Wyoming Copper Co. (? in part).
Deposit Terry Klein submitted several deposits in this area to MRDS in 2000. Those records have not been incorporated into the database.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2008-10-30 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references