Lone Tree Group

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071865
MRDS ID W015551
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Tree Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.6963, 39.04303 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 2.3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASSEMBLY HALL PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bottleneck Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Huntington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Rafael(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(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 020S 011E 33 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore
Zippeite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Mossback Member Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Mossback Mbr. Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Mbr Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.6963, 39.04303

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 40 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 13.72M
    Width 7.62M
    Depth to top 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 19.81M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology, Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Palmer, Russell
    Home office Huntington, Ut

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE ADITS SEPERATED BY ABOUT 250 FT. EACH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C.C. 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL EMERY CO., UT. USGS BULL. 1239

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.