Blue Goose

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015255
MRDS ID DB00590
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Goose
Alternate or previous names Mas 5 1021
Related records 10252220

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.22491, 37.90665 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 5 MILES SW OF WHITE CANYON FLAT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lamp Stand(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 033S 006E 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Moderate Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone > Claystone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member-Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Mbr.-Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.22491, 37.90665

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Circle Cliffs Anticlinal Upwarp
Type of structure Local
Structure description West Flank

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 12 DEG E
    Dip 4 DEG NW
    Thickness 0.76M
    Length 18.29M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbonaceous Material In Sedimentary Channel

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION AT OR JUST ABOVE MOENKOPI-SHINARUMP CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Circle Cliffs Area Henry Mtns. District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rawlins Blackburn

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 22.86M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 60 FT. IN LENGTH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DAVIDSON, E. S., 1967 , GEOLOGY OF THE CIRCLE CLIFFS AREA, GARFIELD AND KANE COUNTIES, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULL. 1229 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    1967 GEOLMAP DAVIDSON, BULL. 1229

  • Deposit

    1967 MINEMAP UGMS SP. ST. 22

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM - MAS

  • Production

    USBM - MAS 5

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEAR CENTER OF SHALLOW BUT WIDE NW-TRENDING CHANNEL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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