Mine detail: Gardner area

Previously called 'Gardner Basin uranium prospect'

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Location: Huerfano County, Colorado, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.88946, -105.24446
dep_id: 10311025
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium, Vanadium
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
model: 204: Sandstone U
alteration: Limonite-stained sandstone and shale
Reporter: Keller, John W., Beach, Richard A.
hrock_unit: Farisita Conglomerate
hrock_type: Sandstone,Arkose,Conglomerate
arock_unit: Farisita Conglomerate
arock_type: Shale
References:
  • 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.
  • Deposit:: Collier, J. D., Hornbaker, A. L., and Chenowith, W. L., 1978, Directory of Colorado uranium and vanadium mining and milling activities: Colorado Geological Survey Map Series 11, 1:500,000
  • Deposit:: Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
  • 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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