E. L. Cord Shaft

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015050
MRDS ID DB00051
Record type Site
Current site name E. L. Cord Shaft
Alternate or previous names Jen, Pasco, Jackie, Uncle Ben

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.2843, 38.24138 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Relative position 1.3 MILES W FROM USLM 1

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sandstone Draw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 029S 024E 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: E 1/2 NW 1/4 SEC. 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Wallrock

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Mossback Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Mossback Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.2843, 38.24138

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR LENS, PODS
    Strike N 35 DEG W
    Dip 9 DEG S
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 670.56M
    Width 213.36M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Big Indian Wash Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Atlas Minerals Corp.

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE INACCESSIBLE, WORKINGS MINED BY ROOM & PILLAR METHOD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY 1973

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.