| Deposit ID | 60000875 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | ISM0772 |
| Record type | District |
| Current site name | Entrada Deposits |
| Alternate or previous names | Includes Rifle Creek, Placerville, Rico, Lightner Creek Districts |
| Geographic coordinates: | -107.68396, 39.66668 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | POINT OF REFERENCE FROM 1:250,000 SCALE MAP. ; APPROX. LAT-LONG AT LOCATION OF RIFLE MINE, THE LARGEST PRODUCER AREA FROM 1:4 000 000 SCALE MAP. DEPOSITS IN ENTRADA, AND ADJACENT ROCKS IN ENTRADA MINERAL BELT. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Garfield(county)
Colorado(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Rifle Falls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Glenwood Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Leadville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Colorado Headwaters-Plateau(hydrologic unit)
Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)
Colorado Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)
Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CO)
Bureau of Land Management CO BLM(Type of land area)
BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Colorado | La Plata |
| United States | Colorado | San Miguel |
| United States | Colorado | Dolores |
| United States | Colorado | Garfield |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Vanadium Critical | Primary |
| Chromium Critical | Primary |
| Selenium | Primary |
| (1) | -107.68396, 39.66668 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | ERG (?) |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Discovery year | 1900 |
| Year of first production | 1909 |
| Year of last production | 1960 |
| District name | LIGHTNER CREEK DISTRICT |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | UNION CARBIDE CORP. |
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | VANADIUM CORP. OF AMERICA |
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: SMITH, L., ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY, TO GRANGER, H.C., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; OCT. 16, 1985: COMPUTER SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, COLORADO PLATEAU V-U DEPSOITS, ORGANIZED BY HOST ROCK.
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: CLARK, R.G., ENERGY INFORMATION 1984: INCUDES COMPUTER SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, COLORADO PLATEAU V-U DEPOSITS ORGANIZED BY AREA, PREPARED BY SMITH, L., DEPT. OF ENERGY.
FISCHER, R.P., 1942. VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF COLORADO AND UTAH, USGS BULL. 936-P, P.363-394.
FISCHER, R.P., 1955. REGIONAL RELATIONS NEAR PLACERVILLE, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO: COLORADO SCI. SOC. PROC., V. 15, NO 3, P. 115-134.
FISCHER, R.P., 1955. REGIONAL RELATIONS OF THE VANADIUM-URANIUM-CHROMIUM DEPOSITS IN THE ENTRADA SANDSTONE, WESTERN COLORADO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TRACE ELEMENTS MEMORANDUM REPORT 916, 20 P.
COLORADO METAL MINING FUND BOARD, 1961. COLORADO VANADIUM: A COMPOSITE STUDY; DENVER, CO., COLORADO MET. MIN. FUND BD., 155 P.
WEBBER, B.N., 1947. GEOLOGY AND ORE RESERVES OF THE URANIUM-VANADIUM DEPOSITIONAL PROVINCE OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU REGION: UNION MINES DEVEL. CORP., REP'T. RMO-437, 279 P. (OPEN-FILED BY THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM., 1960).
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