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Rifle Mine

Past Producer in Garfield county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Lead, Selenium, Chromium
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Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090134
MRDS ID D009732
Record type Site
Current site name Rifle Mine
Alternate or previous names Rifle Creek Mine, Oriole Claims, North Star Claims
Related records 10263934

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.68733, 39.66581 (WGS84)
Elevation 2088
Relative position 10.2 MILES N 30 E OF RIFLE
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Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 004S 092W 35 NW OF NE OF NW Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • 0.75 MILES EAST OF EAST RIFLE CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Primary
Lead Tertiary
Selenium Tertiary
Chromium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Montroseite Ore
Roscoelite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Entrada Sandstone;Navajo Sandstone
    Rock description Entrada Sandstone;Navajo Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.68733, 39.66581
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Geologic structures

Type Description Terms
Regional White River Uplift, Grand Hogback Monocline, Piceance Basin
Local Grand Hogback Monocline, Unnamed Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1909
Discovery method Geophysical Anomaly
Year of first production 1922

Mining district

District name Rifle District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Oral C. Clark
    First year 1975
  • Type Owner
    Owner Union Carbide Corp.

Comments on the production information

  • AS OF 1971, 387, 613 TONS OF ORE HAD BEEN MINED AT GRADES OF 0.07% U308 AND 1.51% V205, PRODUCING 545, 260 LBS OF U308 AND 11, 728, 996 LBS OF V205. (NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS, 1978). ESTIMATED CUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR U308 AND V205 ARE BASED ONTHESE AEC FIGURES THROUGH 1971 PLUS ANNUAL TOTALS FROM COLO. DIV. MINES, 1974-75.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency Database name Acronym Record ID Notes
USGS Mineral Resources Data System MRDS D009732

Comments on the other database information

  • RECORD NUMBER ISM0772 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD

Bibliographic 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. 157.

  • Deposit

    FISCHER, RICHARD P., 1960, VANADIUM-URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE RIFLE CREEK AREA, GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS BULL. 1101

  • Deposit

    COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.

  • Production

    NELSON-MOORE AND OTHERS (1978); COLO. DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Banke, Carl M. Colorado Geological Survey