Desolation Mine

Producer in Emery 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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072967
MRDS ID W018708
Record type Site
Current site name Desolation Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.7388, 38.64415 (WGS84)
Elevation 1725
Relative position 4.6 MILES SW OF TEMPLE MTN IN CRACK CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Temple Mountain(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 025S 011E 07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4, SW 1/4, SE 1/4 OF SEC 7, T 25S, R 11E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RADIOACTIVE PETRIFIED AND COALY WOOD

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Coal Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Slight Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.7388, 38.64415

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell (Se Flank)

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 62 DEG E
    Dip 12 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 10.67M
  • General form IRREGULAR
    Dip 12 DEG SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Organic Material - Logs

Comments on the geologic information

  • SANDSTONE THIN TO MED BEDDED; LENTICULAR, SLOPE FORMING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1955

Mining district

District name Temple Mountain Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SMALL STOCKPILE ORE DEPOSIT; A FEW MINERALIZED LOGS EXPOSED IN WORKINGS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.004HA
    Length 15.24M
    Overall depth 7.62M
    Overall length 12.19M
    Overall width 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • TOTAL: THREE SMALL ADITS

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: REMOTE AREA, PROBABLY LOW GRADE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C. C., 1957, SAN RAFAEL SWELL, UTAH GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS: USAEC TEL-690

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1965, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE TEMPLE MTN. DISTRICT, EMERY CO. UT.: USGS BULL. 1192

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1957 RECON U.S.A.E.C.

  • Deposit

    1965 COMPILE HAWLEY, C.C. - BULLETIN

  • Deposit

    1968 COMPILE HAWLEY, C.C. - BULLETIN

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY - 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H. 1977 UGMS ECOM. GEOL.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1950'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1977 Doelling, Hellmut H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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