Canary

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021156
MRDS ID DC15086
Record type Site
Current site name Canary
Alternate or previous names Canary #4 U-Beva Group
Related records 10203343

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.54079, 38.38191 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Relative position 1500 FT. SOUTH OF TANNER MOUNTAIN SUMMIT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pole Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 006W 09 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Torbernite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Mt Belknap Rhyolite
    Rock description Mt Belknap Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.54079, 38.38191

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin/Plateau Transition
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting-N-S 90 Deg

Ore body information

  • General form HYDROTHERMAL VEIN
    Strike N-S
    Dip 90 DEG

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Filling

Comments on the geologic information

  • A SURVEY OF THE DUMP WITH COUNTER SHOWED LESS THAN .05% EU3O8

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Newton District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Mike L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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