Colorado Mineral Belt, the Glossary
The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) is an area of ore deposits from the La Plata Mountains in Southwestern Colorado to near the middle of the state at Boulder, Colorado, and from which over 25 million troy ounces (778 t) of gold were extracted beginning in 1858.[1]
Table of Contents
15 relations: Boulder, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado Springs metropolitan area, Colorado Western Slope, Gravity anomaly, La Plata Mountains, Laramide orogeny, Leadville mining district, Leadville, Colorado, Mesozoic, Ore, Paleozoic, Plate tectonics, Precambrian, Proterozoic.
- Mining in Colorado
- Regions of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is a home rule city in and the county seat of Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
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Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Colorado Springs metropolitan area
The Colorado Springs, CO, Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Office of Management and Budget defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) located in the Colorado Springs region of the State of Colorado.
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Colorado Western Slope
The Western Slope is a colloquial term generally understood to describe the part of the state of Colorado west of the Continental Divide. Colorado Mineral Belt and Colorado Western Slope are regions of Colorado.
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Gravity anomaly
The gravity anomaly at a location on the Earth's surface is the difference between the observed value of gravity and the value predicted by a theoretical model.
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La Plata Mountains
The La Plata Mountains are a small subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of Colorado, United States.
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Laramide orogeny
The Laramide orogeny was a time period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 80 to 70 million years ago, and ended 55 to 35 million years ago.
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Leadville mining district
The Leadville mining district, located in the Colorado Mineral Belt, was the most productive silver-mining district in the state of Colorado and hosts one of the largest lead-zinc-silver deposits in the world.
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Leadville, Colorado
Leadville is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8Mya, the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale.
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See also
Mining in Colorado
- 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike
- Abandoned mine drainages in Colorado
- Argo Tunnel
- Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency
- Blistered Horn Mill, Colorado
- California Gulch
- Coal mining in Colorado
- Colony Shale Oil Project
- Colorado Mineral Belt
- Colorado School of Mines
- Columbine Mine massacre
- Denver Basin
- Deseret Power Railway
- George W. Peirce
- Gold mining in Colorado
- Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company
- Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)
- Idaho Springs miners' strike of 1903
- King Coal
- McNulty rhyolite
- Mining in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- November 1897 proclamation
- Pikeview, Colorado
- Raton Basin
- Roc Creek
- Silver mining in Colorado
- The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law
- Timeline of mining in Colorado
- Uranium mining in Colorado
Regions of Colorado
- Central Colorado
- Colorado Mineral Belt
- Colorado Piedmont
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado Western Slope
- Denver metropolitan area
- Eastern Plains
- Grand Valley (Colorado–Utah)
- High Plains (United States)
- High Rockies
- North East Side (Denver)
- North West Side (Denver)
- Northern Colorado
- Northwestern Colorado
- Roaring Fork Valley
- San Luis Valley
- South-Central Colorado
- Southwest Colorado
- Uinta Basin
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Mineral_Belt
Also known as Mineral Belt of Colorado.