Oljeto

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078620
MRDS ID W027043
Record type Site
Current site name Oljeto
Related records 10179159

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.30904, 37.04057 (WGS84)
Elevation 1609
Relative position APPROXIMATLY .75 MILES NE OF BENCHMARKER 4838, 4.6 MILES EAST OF HOSKINNINI MESA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oljato(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 043S 014E 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4 SEC. 24

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Uranophane Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone And Sandstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    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 Shinarump Member Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Cutler Group

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Monument Upwarp

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 11 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG NW
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 7.62M
    Depth to top 38.1M
    Depth to bottom 38.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Monument Valley

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 40.84M
    Overall depth 38.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRIMBLE, D. E., AND LEWIS, R. Q. SR., 1959, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONUMENT VALLEY, SAN JUAN CO., UTAH USGS BULL 1087-D

  • Deposit

    GUIDBOOK TO URANIUM DEPOSITS OF WESTERN U.S. USAEC, 1959

  • Deposit

    1959 COMPILE TRIMBLE, D. E. BULLITIN

  • Deposit

    1959 COMPILE USAEC GUIDBOOK

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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