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Madonna No. 1

Producer in Jefferson county in Colorado, United States with commodities Quartz, Feldspar
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10288338
MAS/MILS ID 0080590116
Record type Site
Current site name Madonna No. 1
Alternate or previous names Eastern Madonna, Madonna No 1

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -105.19464, 39.37599 (WGS84)
Elevation 2201
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Location by comparing southernmost mine symbol in Sec. 2 on topo with satellite imagery. (At south end of loop road made by "Road B" on Bing images.)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Platte Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bailey(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper South Platte(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pike and San Isabel National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Jefferson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008N 070W 2 SE of SW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • #18 is described as southernmost pegmatite of the SE4 of the SW4 of Sec. 2, but is shown in NE oif SW of Sec. 2. Coordinates are for the southernmost mine symbol shown on the topo in SE of SW of Sec. 2.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Quartz Primary
Feldspar Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore

Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • Very large singel crystals of quartz in core. Wall zone. Core is composite quartz-microcline. Orebody is 120' X 105' and oval-shaped.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 32M
    Width 36.57M

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-SEP-78 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 16-NOV-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Colorado resources

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