Bear Creek

Occurrence in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodities Copper, PGE
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10142066
MAS/MILS ID 0080570145
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Creek
Alternate or previous names Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.59873, 40.76077 (WGS84)
Elevation 2850
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boettcher Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Platte Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Mount Zirkel Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Jackson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
PGE Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.59873, 40.76077

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • COPPER PROSPECT IN ULTRAMAFIC BODY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-AUG-93 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.