WSP00003

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 4/1/1969
• Author: CWCB - USDA
• Title: Water and Related Land Resources - Yampa River Basin - Colorado and Wyoming
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Coal mine near Oak Creek in Routt County

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Sand and gravel, produced at plants near Steamboat Sprin~s and Craig,
are used mainly for construction purposes such a~ aggregate for concrete,
mortar, asphalt, and as road base.

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Metallic mineral production in the basin has been relatively small. The
largest production has been in Routt County, Colorado, mainly from the
Hanns Peak district, which has been an intermittent producer of gold,
silver, copper, and lead since 1866. The principal product until about
1895 was placer gold. Since that time attempts have been made to produce
gold, silver. copper, lead, and zinc from small irregular veins found
within th", Tertiary intrusive rocks and adjacent Precambrian rocks. The
total value of all metallic mineral production from the district through
1954 has been estimated at about $500,000.

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Potentially valuable mineralization in Carbon County, Wyoming, includes
gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, nickel, barite, graphite, and iron in
the Precambrian crystalline rocks near the headwaters of Battle Creek and

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