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Title: Canon City District wilderness planning amendment
Identifier: canoncitydistricunit (find matches)
Year: 1982 (1980s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Subjects: Wilderness areas; Land use
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Contributing Library: Bureau of Land Management Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Bureau of Land Management

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37 BEAVER CREEK (016) This unit contains 26,150 acres located 10 miles northeast of Canon City in Fremont, Teller, and El Paso Counties. The WSA lies within T. 16 S., R. 67, 68 and 69 W.; T. 17 S., R. 68 and 69 W. , 6th PM. (See Map III-4.) Air This unit is considered Class II by Federal Air Quality Standards. The Colorado State Air Pollution Control Commission has identified most of the northern portion of this WSA as a zone of high air quality. Geology and Minerals The WSA is situated on the southern end of the Front Range with the major rock units of the area consisting of granites and migmatitic gneisses and schists. The southern portion of the unit has several different sedimentary units of Paleozoic age which form the northeast-southwest trending foothills of the WSA. The major geologic structure of the entire area is the Pikes Peak Batholith to the north. There are no known significant resources in and around this WSA. As of December 31, 1981, there were two recorded mining claims. There are 26,150 acres of subsurface minerals in Federal ownership. Critical Mineral Resource Values The possibility of mineral development within the WSA, based on available information, appears to be minimal. Interest for mineral resources within the WSA has been limited to the exploration of small pegmatites and fluorlte. Some fluorite development occurred during the middle to late 1950s, however, no production figures are available. The production of fluorlte from the unit was minor and hand sorting of the ore was required. Insufficient reserves remain at the site for further development and it is unlikely that new reserves would be found; if they are it is unlikely they would be put into production. The pegmatites within the WSA are small and for the most part unzoned. Pegmatites are scattered throughout the area, but are so small that only a very few have been explored, the largest one located in Trails Gulch. The size and location of these pegmatites make their resource value very small. Minor development work for the manganese has been done in Sec. 26, T. 17 S., R. 69 W. , 6th PM from a strata bound deposit situated between Ordivician sediments and Precambrian metamorphics. The deposit Is believed to be isolated and no evidence of major mineralization has been identified within the WSA. There are currently no known deposits of uranium within the unit and the only anomalous values identified are associated with the fluorite in West Mill Gulch. A CO-050-016 R69W R68W R67W w4'~-/
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