The Stumbling Stud Mine is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Huerfano county, Colorado at an elevation of 8,261 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: 8,261 Feet (2,518 Meters)
Commodity: Vanadium, Uranium
Lat, Long: 37.77276, -105.01851
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Stumbling Stud Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Stumbling Stud Mine
Secondary: Badito Cone Mine
Commodity
Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium
Tertiary: Zirconium
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Location
State: Colorado
County: Huerfano
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Year: 1963
Material type: ORE U V
Description: Ap_Grade: ^0.13 % U308, 0.009 % V205
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
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: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Wet Mtns Uplift
Type: L
Description: Greenhorn Anticline , Unnamed Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Phonolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Oligocene
Name: Phonolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Oligocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: NO ZN, CU, AU, OR AG.
Analytical Data: BASKIN'S CHIP SAMPLES FROM PITS IN DAKOTA SANDSTONE AND GRANEROS SHALE CONTAINED 0.004 TO 0.031 % U308, 0.02 TO 0.04 % V205, 0.05 TO 1.83 % F. CHIP SAMPLES OF FE-STAINED SANDSTONE FROM MAIN PITS CONTAINED 0.001 TO 0.033 % U308 WITH HIGH VALUE OF 0.120 % U308, 0.01 TO 0.05 % V205, 1.28 TO 5.98 % F (DISSEMINATED FLUORITE)
Materials
Ore: Coffinite
Gangue: Fluorite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON SOUTH SLOPE OF BADITO CONE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
Comment (General): Combined information for 2 records. Record 10288585 should be deleted.
References
Reference (Deposit): WRIGHT, R.J., AND EVERHART, D.L., 1960, URANIUM--HUERFANO PARK AREA, HUERFANO COUNTY, IN DEL R10, S.M., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO, FIRST SEQUEL: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 362.
Reference (Deposit): BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, P. 9.
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. 182.
Reference (Deposit): BOYER, R.E., 1961, OCCURRENCE OF RADIOACTIVE FLUORITIC SANDSTONE, WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 56, NO. 4, P. 780-783.
Reference (Deposit): BASKIN, G.D., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, HUERFANO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM MLA 26-83.
Reference (Deposit): Ref: Crib #DC02462
Reference (Deposit): OWN/OP: Gray Construction Co. 1966
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