Mine detail: Bell Air Claims

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Location: Huerfano County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.76196, -105.01639
dep_id: 10013984
mrds_id: D010567
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium, Vanadium
Minor mineral: Silver
Trace mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Coffinite
gangue: Epidote, Malachite
model: 204: Sandstone U
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D., Keller, John W.
hrock_unit: Pugatoire Formation
hrock_type: Sandstone
Structure: Wet Mountains Uplift, Greenhorn Anticline, Unnamed Fault
tectonic: Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
References:
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH -CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-558.
  • Deposit:: BASKIN, G.D., 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, HUERFANO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM M LA 26-83.
  • Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENC ES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 182.
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