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Payday Mine

Past Producer in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, 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. 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. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071852
MRDS ID W015523
Record type Site
Current site name Payday Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.8338, 38.79497 (WGS84)
Elevation 2182

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

San Rafael Knob(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S 010E 20,19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SEC 19 AND SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SEC 20

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Barite Gangue
Marcasite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Chinle-Formation-Monitor Butte Member
    Rock description Chinle-Formation-Monitor Butte Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.8338, 38.79497
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR - BLANKET, LENS
    Strike N 20 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG NW
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 21.34M
    Width 7.62M
    Depth to top 18.29M
    Depth to bottom 24.38M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Coalified Wood And Asphaltite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name San Rafael District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Elden Bryan, Foster Nelson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 45.72M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • THERE ARE TWO ADITS, BOTH CAVED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C.C. AND OTHERS, 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS, AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY CO., UTAH,: USGS BULL. 123

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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