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Big Chief

Occurrence in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. 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. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072995
MRDS ID W018758
Record type Site
Current site name Big Chief
Related records 10275583

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.99991, 38.66886 (WGS84)
Elevation 1567
Relative position 1.2 MILES SOUTH OF TOMSICH BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tomsich Butte(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 008E 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4, NW 1/4, NE 1/4, SEC. 2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Coal Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization Around Lentils

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Chinle Formation-Moss Back Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation-Moss Back Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.99991, 38.66886
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description West Flank Of San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form SCATTERED LENTILS
    Strike N 10 DEG E
    Dip 4 DEG NW
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbon Trash

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael District

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 1.83M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SMALL DOGHOLE AND DOZER CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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