Forney Deposit

Occurrence in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodity Vermiculite
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. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10191353
MAS/MILS ID 0080570035
Record type Site
Current site name Forney Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -106.34973, 40.97887 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Northgate(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(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

Medicine Bow-Routt 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 Jackson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vermiculite Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -106.34973, 40.97887

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:MINOBRAS,1974;BLM SUR. MNGT. QUAD

  • Deposit

    CRIB,DC01749

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 MILS ENTRIES AT THIS LOCATION, COMBINED INTO 1. NO OBVIOUS ROADS OR PROSPECTS HERE DURING FIELD INVESTIGATION OF 1992.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-AUG-1993 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.