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Red Cliff

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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  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. Reserves and resources
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015286
MRDS ID DB00652
Record type Site
Current site name Red Cliff
Alternate or previous names Mas 26 1009
Related records 10154128

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.22102, 37.99804 (WGS84)
Elevation 1935
Relative position 3 MILES WEST OF LAMPSTAND

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 032S 006E 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 ; SW 1/4 ; NE 1/4 ; OF SECTION 26

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Iron Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Moderate Bleaching

Analytical data

Result MOENKOPI ( 1 FT. ) .006 PERCENT U SHINARUMP ( 1 FT. ) .012 PERCENT

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.22102, 37.99804
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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 5 DEG E
    Dip 3 DEG W
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 45.72M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Charcoaly Wood And Clayey Sandstone 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 Tanner - Rutherford
  • Type Owner
    Owner Clifton Peterson

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.2 wt-pct Uranium Major 1973

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 24.38M
    Overall length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 80 FT. IN LENGTH AND OPEN IN 1973

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DAVIDSON, 1967

  • 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, BULLETIN 1229

  • Deposit

    1967 RECON UGMS SP. ST. 22

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM - MAS

  • Production

    USBM - MAS26

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURS IN LOWER PART OF 2 - 6 FT. BED OF BROWN, IRON OXIDE-STAINED CONGLOMERATE COMPOSED OF FRAGMENTS OF GRAY TO LIGHT-YELLOW MUDSTONE AND BLACK CHARCOALY WOOD IMBEDDED IN CLAYEY MEDIUM-GRAINED SANDSTONE.

Reporter information

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

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