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Mitten No. 1

Past Producer in San Juan 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. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078570
MRDS ID W026958
Record type Site
Current site name Mitten No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.24349, 37.01945 (WGS84)
Elevation 1743
Relative position 2 MILES NW OF GOULDING HOSPITAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goulding(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Navajo Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 27

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Mbr. Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.24349, 37.01945
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, ELONGATE, TABULAR
    Strike N 20 DEG E
    Dip 1 DEG NW
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 22.86M
    Depth to top 12.19M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS, CONSIDERABLE CAVING IN EASTERN ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L.M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

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