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0020'7 '. abundant mineral material availability in the region, the SRMA is not important to meeting local or regional demands for salable minerals. Leasable Minerals: Leasable minerals include Coal, Oil and Gas, Oil Shale, Geothermal and Phosphate minerals. No phosphatic, oil shale, or coal minerals occur, nor has the US Geological Survey (USGS) identified any areas prospectively valuable (P.V.) for these minerals near the proposed SRMA boundary. Geothermal There are no geothermal resources in the SRMA that the USGS classifies as P. V. for geothermal resources. There are important geothermal resources located in the region, but outside the boundaries of the SRMA. One of the more visible, is the Hot Sulphur Springs located several miles upstream of the SRMA at Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. There is a warm spring within the SRMA located near Radium on the Colorado River. It is approximately 100 degree F. in temperature, and has minimal volume. This spring area is not identified by the USGS as being P. V. for geothermal resources. It is thought to only have value as a recreational resource to campers and river runners in the immediate area. , Oil and Gas Very limited oil and gas interest, activity, or drilling has occurred in the region, with no drilling activity having occurred in the proposed SRMA area. No oil and gas production occurs in either Eagle or Grand Counties, with little potential in the proposed SRMA boundary. Only a small portion of the proposed SRMA lies within areas delineated by USGS as P. V. for oil and gas (in some areas above big Gore Canyon, and below Red Canyon only). No oil and gas leases currently occur in the townships that contain the SRMA. Only 5 leases have been issued in the past 25 years in the proposed SRMA area, and those leases covered only small areas within the SRMA. The most recent of these leases expired in 1993. Any future oil and gas leasing in the presently existing SRMA boundary would be subject to a NSO stipulation, in accordance with the Kremmling Oi I and Gas RMP Amendment completed in 1991. This document indicates oil and gas activity would change the setting of the SRMA from semi-primitive to rural or urban. The proposed action would expand the NSO stipulation to include the new proposed SRMA boundary consistent with the rationale in the 1991 RMP amendment. Little potential exi sts for oi I and gas de velopment in the proposed SRMA area. Locatable Minerals: Hard rock and placer minerals that are not included in the above categories are locatable, and fall under the 1872 Mining Law. Of these, only copper, pyrite uranium and placer gold have been identified within or near the proposed SRMA boundary. Copper: Copper mineralization lies at the SRMA in the southern parts of Township I South, Ranges 82 and 83 West. from Copper Spur, along the Copper Flats and Yarmony Park areas into the SRMA at Red Canyon (at the improved Island campsite). Copper mineralization also lies in some outcrops southeast of the SRMA, 3 miles southeast of Kremmling. Several mine openings exist on the trend from near Copper Spur at the west, to the Colorado River on the east. and a number of mining claims were patented for copper in and surrounding ponions of the SRMA in the early 1900s on this trend. Although considerable prospecting, claim locating and small adits were driven at this time, only once was any ore produced and shipped, and that was a single railroad car load from the mine at Copper Spur, outside of the 22