Mine detail: Dave Welsh Claim

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Location: Las Animas County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.24809, -104.26359
dep_id: 10094401
mrds_id: D006693
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Gypsum, Limonite
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Schwochow, Stephen D.
hrock_unit: Pierre Shale
hrock_type: Shale
Structure: Raton Basin Trough, Sierra Grande Uplift, Model Anticline
tectonic: Central Platform
References:
  • Deposit:: NELSON-MOORE, J.L., COLLINS, D.B., AND HORNBAKER, A.L., 1978, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY: CGS BULL. 40, P. 215.
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, R.B., 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TRINIDAD QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP 1-558.
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