The Hall Property is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Huerfano county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,780 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 8,780 Feet (2,676 Meters)
Commodity: Vanadium, Uranium
Lat, Long: 37.56556, -105.16944
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Hall Property MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hall Property
Commodity
Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Colorado
County: Huerfano
District: La Veta Pass Area Area
Land Status
Land ownership: State
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Interior Plains
Physiographic Province: Great Plains Province
Physiographic Section: Raton Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sandstone U
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Culebra Massif
Type: L
Description: Normal Fault Trending N38w, Downthrown To Ne, La Veta Syncline
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 0.04 MR/HR BACKGROUND, RANGING FROM 0.12 TO 0.2 MR/HR. 0.013 TO 0.017 % EU, 2.34 % V2O5
Materials
Ore: Carnotite
Ore: Malachite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON INTERFLUVIAL DIVIDE BETWEEN NORTH MIDDLE CR. AND SOUTH ABEYTA CR. LOCATION WITHIN SEC. 36 UNCERTAIN. LAT-LONG GIVEN IS CENTER OF S/2. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
Comment (Workings): TWO TRENCHES
References
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP 1-558.
Reference (Deposit): NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 183.
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