Primos

Past Producer in San Miguel county in Colorado, United States with commodity Vanadium
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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10167726
MAS/MILS ID 0081130762
Record type Site
Current site name Primos
Alternate or previous names Primos Chemical Company

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -108.00125, 37.9958 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Miguel(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Cone(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dove Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Miguel(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado San Miguel

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -108.00125, 37.9958

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Primos Chemical Co.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    C D M SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT 1916 [C D M = Colorado Division of Mines?]

  • Deposit

    Smith, D.A., 1977, Colorado Mining--A photographic history: Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 176 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 05-JAN-12 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Colorado resources

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