Badger

Occurrence in Jackson county in Colorado, United States with commodity Copper
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. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10215393
MAS/MILS ID 0080570147
Record type Site
Current site name Badger
Alternate or previous names Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -106.34283, 40.95937 (WGS84)
Elevation 2457
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

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
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -106.34283, 40.95937

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northgate

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:CRIB,DC01740;7.5 QUAD MAP;BLM SUR. MNGT. QUAD

  • Deposit

    MINERAL APPRAISAL OF ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO: USBM

  • Deposit

    OPENFILE REPORT MLA ?-93, SAMPLES 290-293.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER-BEARING PEGMATITE WITHIN HORNBLENDE GNEISS. CAVED ADIT AND SOME PITS ON HILLSIDE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-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.