# * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * # * Wet Mountains Area Iron Hill Powderhorn District New Mexico Cripple Creek Leadville Cement Creek District (Silverton) Tomichi Copper- Molybdenum Climax Urad-Henderson Boulder County Tungsten District Weld Moffat Mesa Baca Park Routt Yuma Las Animas Garfield Lincoln Larimer Pueblo Gunnison Bent Saguache Elbert Eagle Grand Logan Rio Blanco Kiowa El Paso Montrose Otero Delta Washington La Plata Kit Carson Jackson Prowers Fremont Montezuma Cheyenne Huerfano Morgan Adams Pitkin Costilla Conejos Archuleta Dolores Chaffee Mineral Hinsdale San Miguel Custer Douglas Teller Crowley Phillips Boulder Ouray Arapahoe Jefferson Lake Summit Alamosa Rio Grande Sedgwick San Juan Clear Creek Gilpin Denver Broomfield Utah Kansas Wyoming Nebraska Oklahoma Arizona ¯ Service Layer Credits: National Geographic, Esri, Garmin, HERE, UNEP-WCMC, USGS, NASA, ESA, METI, NRCAN, GEBCO, NOAA, increment P Corp. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Critical mineral deposits and occurrences in Colorado 0 50 100 150 MILES 0 50 100 150 KILOMETERS Explanation Critical mineral and significant deposits from USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN) Deposits and occurrences with critical minerals from Mineral Resources Data System Records from Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) show deposits, prospects, and occurrences containing critical minerals. Many of these may not be economic. Records from the USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN) show the most significant known critical mineral deposits in the U.S. According to USMIN records, there are no known significant deposits of cobalt, germanium, lithium, or tellurium in Colorado. Aluminum Antimony Arsenic Barite Beryllium Bismuth Chromium Fluorite Gallium Graphite Helium Indium Magnesium Manganese Niobium Platinum group elements Potassium Rubidium Strontium Tantalum Titanium Uranium Vanadium Zirconium Rare earth elements district Colorado Mineral Belt # Significant deposit of gold, silver, copper, lead, and (or) zinc # Rhenium # Tin # Tungsten # Rare earth elements County