Steele Claims

Occurrence in Kane 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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015556
MRDS ID DB01448
Record type Site
Current site name Steele Claims
Related records 10203041

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.27102, 37.4561 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Relative position ALONG FIFTY MILE BENCH, 2 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF CAT CORRAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Basin Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 038S;039S 006E;006E 32,33;05,04 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization (Weak)

Analytical data

Result EU3O8 0.01 - 0.033 %
Result V2O5 0.002 - 0.005 %

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison Formation
    Rock description Morrison Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.27102, 37.4561

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES AND PODS
    Strike NW
    Dip 3 DEG SW
    Thickness 13.72M
    Length 2413.95M
    Width 804.65M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fluvial Channels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kaiparowits Plateau/Fifty Mile Bench Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Robert L. Steele
    Home office Nephi, Ut.
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management And State Of Utah

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VERY LOW GRADE

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHORT ADIT LESS THAN 50 FT. IS OPEN, SOME BULLDOZER CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS SURVEY FIELD REPORT

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1976 , STEELE URANIUM CLAIMS NEAR CAT PASTURE, KANE CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY FIELD REPORT, 3 P.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1976, STEELE URANIUM CLAIMS NEAR CAT PASTURE, KANE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY FIELD REPORT, 3 P.

  • Deposit

    1976 RECON UGMS-SURVEY FIELD REPOR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISCONTINUOUS ACROSS LENGTH; THREE SANDSTONE CHANNELS, SUPERIMPOSED, ARE ANOMALOUSLY RADIOACTIVE. DIP VARIES 2 TO 5 DEG SW

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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