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MESA COUNTY
Mining districts: Copper Creek, Gateway (Calamity, Maverick), Grand River, Hydraulic, Sinbad, Unaweep.
Butler, B.S., 1915, Notes on the Unaweep copper district, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 580B, p. 19-23.
Coffin, R.C., 1921, Radium, uranium and vanadium deposits of southwestern Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 16, 231 p.
Holmes, R.W., and C.M. Harrer, 1952, Investigation of the Colorado Copper Co. properties, Mesa and Montrose counties, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations RI- 4869, 11 p.
MINERAL COUNTY
Mining districts: Crater, Creede (Sunnyside, King Solomon), Royal Arch
Emmons, W.H., and E.S. Larsen, 1913, A preliminary report on the geology and ore deposits of Creede, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 530, p. 42-65.
Emmons, W.H., and E.S. Larsen, Jr., 1923, Geology and ore deposits of the Creede district, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 718, 198 p.
Larsen, E.S., Jr., 1929, "Recent mining developments in the Creede district, Colorado," Part 1 in Contributions to economic geology: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 811, p. 89-112.
Meeves, Henry C. and Rochard P. Darnell, 1968, Study of the silver potential, Creede District, Mineral County, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular IC-8370, 58 p.
Steven, T.A., and J.C. Ratte, 1965, Geology and structural control of ore deposition in the Creede district, San Juan Mountains, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 487, 90 p.
MOFFAT COUNTY
Mining districts: Blue Mountain, Douglas Mountain (Escalante Hills), Lay (Jackrabbit, Round Bottom, Skull Creek, Timberlake Gulch (Fourmile Creek)
Hancock, E.T., and J.B. Eby, 1930, Geology and coal resources of the Meeker quadrangle, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 812-C, p. 191-242.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY
Mining districts: Bear Creek, East Mancos River (Red Arrow), Stoner.
Cross, Whitman, A.C. Spencer, and C.W. Purington, 1899[1900], La Plata, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Folio 60, 15 p., 2 sheets of illus., 4 maps.
Eckel, E.B., 1936, "Resurvey of the geology and ore deposits of the La Plata mining district, Colorado": Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 13, no. 9, p. 508-547.
Eckel, E.B., 1949, Geology and ore deposits of the La Plata district: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 219, 179 p.
Ekren, E.B., and F.N. Hauser, 1965, Geology and petrology of the Ute Mountains area, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 481, 74 p.
MONTROSE COUNTY
Mining districts: Chipeta, Hydraulic, La Sal Creek, Naturita (Vixen), Oro, Paradox Valley, Rock Creek, Tabequatche Basin.
Carter, W.D., and J.L. Gualtieri, 1965 (1966), Geology and uranium-vanadium deposits of the La Sal quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah, and Montrose County, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 508, 82 p.
Coffin, R.C., 1921, Radium, uranium and vanadium deposits of southwestern Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 16, 231 p.
Emmons, W.H., 1906, The Cashin mine, Montrose County, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 285B, p. 125-128.
Holmes, R.W., and C.M. Harrer, 1952, Investigation of the Colorado Copper Co. properties, Mesa and Montrose counties, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations RI- 4869, 11 p.
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OURAY COUNTY
Mining districts: Lower Uncompahgre, Red Mountain, Ridgway, Sentinel, Sneffels (Imogene Basin, Camp Bird), Uncompahgre (Upper Uncompahgre, Ouray, Paquin)
Bastin, E.S., 1923, Silver enrichment in the San Juan Mountains, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 735-D, p. 65-129.
Belser, Carl, 1958, Tungsten potential in the San Juan area, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel counties, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular IC7731, 18 p.
Burbank, W.S., 1940 [1941], Structural control of ore deposition in the the Uncompahgre district, Ouray County, Colo., with suggestions for prospecting: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 906- E, p. 189-265,
Burbank, W.S., 1941, "Structural control of ore deposition in the Red Mountains, Sneffels, and Telluride districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado": Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 14, no. 5, p. 141-261.
Collins, G.E., 1931, `Localization of ore bodies at Rico and Red Mountain, Colorado as conditioned by geologic structure and history": Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 12, no. 12, p. 407-424.
Cross, Whitman, Ernest Howe, and F.L. Ransome, 1905, Silverton, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Folio 120, 35 p., 1 sheet of illus., 4 maps.
Cross, Whitman, Ernest Howe. and J.D. Irving, 1907, Ouray, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Folio 153, 20 p., 1 sheet of illus., 3 maps.
Deshayes, E.V., and W.E. Young, 1948, Camp Bird lead-zinc deposits, Ouray County, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations RI-4230, 19 p.
Fisher, F.S., 1990, Gold deposits in the SneffelsTelluride and Camp Bird mining districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1857-F, p. 12-18.
Hazen, S.W., Jr., 1949, Lead-zinc-silver in the Poughkeepsie district and part of the Upper Uncompahgre and Mineral Point districts, Ouray and San Juan counties, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations RI-4508, 110 p.
Irving, J.D., 1905, Ore deposits of the Ouray district, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 260B, p. 50-77.
Kelley, V.C., 1946, "Geology, ore deposits, and mines of the Mineral Point, Poughkeepsie, and Upper Uncompahgre districts, Ouray, San Juan, and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado": Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 14, no. 7, p. 287-311.
King, W.H., and P.R. Allsman, 1950, Reconnaissance of metal mining in the San Juan region, Ouray, San Juan and San Miguel counties, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular IC7554, 109 p.
Luedke, R.G., and W.S. Burbank, 1981, Geologic map of the Uncompahgre (Ouray) mining district, south western Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations map I-1247.
Ransome, F.L., 1901, A report on the economic geology of the Silverton quadrangle, Colo.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 182, 265 p.
Schwarz,T.E., 1889, "Notes on the ore occurrence of the Red Mountain district": Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, v. 3, p. 77-85.
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