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Sunshine

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078619
MRDS ID W027041
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine
Alternate or previous names Sunrise
Related records 10179298

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.62236, 37.435 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUFF, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

No-Mans Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bluff(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan-Four Corners(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 038S 021E 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4 SECTION 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Blenching In Sandstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.62236, 37.435
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ELONGATE TABULAR
    Strike N 5 DEG W
    Dip 4 DEG NE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 4.57M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 22.86M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels, Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Butler Wash - Bluff

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jeff Waters, Richard Tibbitts

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 118.87M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

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

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