Mine detail: Big Buck Mine

Previously called 'Standard'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.18749, -109.25819

Resource(M)

Primary:	Vanadium, Uranium
Tertiary:	Copper
Ore:	Carnotite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Malachite, Montroseite, Uraninite
Gangue:	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Orebody form:	TABULAR, LENS, PODS, IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1954

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1955

Geology

Host rock:	Cutler Formation
Host type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Stable Platform, Thicker Portions Of Sandstone, Enriched Along Fractures

References

MRDS	DB00061
DEP	10015059
Reference	{Production:: UGMS STUDY - 1973}{Reserve-Resource:: JONES, H., 1978}
Reporter	Trimble, Larry M.