The Whitecliff 1-6 Claims is a uranium and vanadium mine located in Huerfano county, Colorado.
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Whitecliff 1-6 Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Whitecliff 1-6 Claims
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: Vanadium
Location
State: Colorado
County: Huerfano
District: Gardner area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Surface
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sandstone U
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Limonite-stained sandstone and shale
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Eocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Geology): Uranium and vanadium mineralization occurs in lenses of limonitic, carbonaceous sandstone and arkose in the Farisita Conglomerate. Nelson-Moore and others (1978) report that the unit has good potential to host additional significant uranium deposits.
Comment (Commodity): No uranium minerals noted when prospect was examined in 1966, but radioactivity levels were 0.12 to 0.3 mr/per hour.
Comment (Location): Located about six miles northwest of the town of Gardner.
References
Reference (Deposit): Nelson-Moore, J.L., Collins, D.B., and Hornbaker, A.L., 1978, Radioactive mineral occurrences of Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1054 p., 12 pl.
Reference (Geology): Johnson, R.B., 1969, Geologic map of the Trinidad quadrangle, south-central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-558, scale 1:250000
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