1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Freemont

Occurrence in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  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 10073005
MRDS ID W018778
Record type Site
Current site name Freemont
Related records 10178343

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.98991, 38.58608 (WGS84)
Elevation 1670
Relative position 2.6 MILES NW OF THE DELTA MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hunt Draw(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 026S 009E 06 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    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) -110.98991, 38.58608
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 7.62M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to top 103.63M
    Depth to bottom 106.68M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Coaly Logs

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 BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. Anderson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 24.38M
    Overall depth 106.68M

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

  • Deposit

    1976 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY - REPT OF INVES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site