Geoscience is often a crucial element for efficient resource management of natural resource projects.
Bristlecone-Geo assists landowners, extractive resource industry, local government, land appraisers, and land trusts through providing qualified geoscience research, mapping, and reporting services.
Keeping the audience in mind, our reports are written to provide the rationale necessary to substantiate informed decisions for decision makers. Our reports are prepared by a Certified Professional Geologist.
Mineral Resource Assessment
Providing qualified mineral resource reports for land appraisal, baseline studies, and conservation easements. We have prepared hundreds of mineral assessment reports and remoteness letters in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, and New Mexico.
Land Status & Severed Mineral Research
Including research of original land patents, mineral ownership, cadastral surveys, patented and unpatented mining claims, and abandoned mineral rights.
Baseline Geologic Documentation
Research and mapping services of geologic hazards including rockfall, landslide-prone areas, and abandoned mine lands.
From recent mapping to historic map conversions, Bristlecone-Geo crafts geologic maps, cross sections, block models, stratigraphic columns, and other geologic illustrations.
Representative Geoscience Projects
Western Gateway
Park
City of Cañon City, Colorado
On behalf of the City of Cañon City, Bristlecone-Geo prepared a mineral assessment report to fulfill due diligence requirements for the project which was funded in part by Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO).
Colorado Geological
Survey
Together with Pangaea Geospatial, Bristlecone-Geo has provided ongoing geologic map support to the Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) since 2008.
Utilizing authoring geologist’s field notes and sketches, project elements include the development of geologic cross sections, correlation of map units, and other illustrations.
CGS geologic map projects are partially funded by the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program.
Beginning in 2020, we have transitioned map development to the USGS Geological Map Schema (GeMS), a process which standardizes digital geologic map publications across the United States.
Willow Creek
Land Exchange
TMII Development LLC,
U.S. Forest Service, and
Western Land Group
Bristlecone-Geo prepared a USFS long for mineral potential report for a federal land exchange located within the Sulphur Ranger District, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland, Grand County, Colorado.
TMII Development proposed to convey one parcel of land containing approximately 50.23 acres to the USFS. In exchange, USFS would convey one parcel of land containing approximately 6.87 acres located adjacent to the Mary Jane lifts at the base of the Winter Park ski area to the proponent.
Additional Representative Geoscience Projects
Mineral Remote Assessment (Remoteness Letters) —
Bristlecone-Geo assists landowners and land trusts by providing qualified mineral resource reports for land appraisal and baseline conservation easements. Bristlecone-Geo has helped conserve over 42,500 acres in Colorado & Kansas.
- Western Gateway Park – Cañon City, Colorado
- 3 B Messenger Ranch – Kingman County, Kansas
- Woolfolk Ranches – Comanche County, Kansas
- Green Ranches – Moffat County, Colorado
- Berrien Ranch – Park County, Colorado
- Box 6 Ranch – Park County, Colorado
- Taylor Ranch – Fremont County, Colorado
- Great Divide Ranch – Moffat County, Colorado
- Thirtynine Mile Mountain Ranch – Park County, Colorado
- Lower Spring Ranch – Moffat County, Colorado
- Vallie Ranch – Fremont County, Colorado
- Windy Ridge Ranch – Boulder County, Colorado
- Bull Springs Ranch – Teller County, Colorado
- La Dolce Vita Ranch – Park County, Colorado
- Vickerman Ranch – Custer County, Colorado
- Montava Planned Community – Larimer County, Colorado
- Twin Pines Ranch – Boulder County, Colorado
- Forest Lakes Open Space – El Paso County, Colorado
Baseline Documentation Reports —
- Mt. Tom Open Space Park – Jefferson County, Colorado
- Colorado Headwaters – Granby Highlands Open Space
- Santa Fe Trail Ranches Community Wildfire Protection Plan
- Fording River Mine Extension (fugitive methane) – British Columbia
- Murray River Mine (fugitive methane) – British Columbia
- North Park Natural Gas Environmental Assessment Project, Colorado
- McDermitt Caldera Lithium (DOGAMI permitting) – Oregon
- Clayton North Lithium Prospect Maps – Nevada
- Waggener Farm Conservation Easement GIS & Cartography
- Lewis Farm Conservation Easement GIS & Cartography
- Forest Lakes Conservation Area Maps
- Fisher Peak State Park Habitat Characterization
- Mill Creek Recreational Trail Corridor – Moab, Utah
- Glade Run Recreational Area NEPA – Farmington, New Mexico
- Bonneville Shoreline Trail Alignment Verification – Davis County, Utah
- Glen Cunningham Reservoir – Omaha, Nebraska
- Mill Creek Open Space Trails – Bountiful, Utah
- Red Hill Special Recreation Management Area – Carbondale, Colorado
- Bonneville Shoreline Trail Alignment Verification – Salt Lake County, Utah
- Great Divide Trail Alignment Verification – Salt Lake County, Utah
- Tamarisk Riparian Restoration Characterization – Mesa County, Colorado
- Piceance Basin Natural Gas NEPA projects
- Garnet Mesa Electric Transmission Corridor EIS
- Dome Plateau Vibroseis EIS
- Uncompahgre Plateau Restoration Project NEPA
Federal Mineral Potential Reports —
- Escalante Ranch – Uncompahgre National Forest
- Locke Park – San Isabel National Forest
- Mt. Emmons – Gunnison National Forest
- Wagon Tongue – San Isabel National Forest
- Willow Creek – Roosevelt National Forest
Private Mineral Potential Reports —
- Dunmore Mine Property File Compilation – Ouray County, Colorado
- Unaweep-Paradox Property File Compilations – Colorado & Utah
- Gold Prince Mine Mineral Assessment Report – Cochise County, Arizona
- Alaska-Yukon Generative Mineral Assessment Property File Reviews
- Stuyahok Prospect Mineral Potential Report – Marshall District, Alaska
- Donlin Creek Prospect Mineral Potential Report – Aniak District, Alaska