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Margaret

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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078623
MRDS ID W027051
Record type Site
Current site name Margaret
Alternate or previous names Look Out
Related records 10252095

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.30596, 37.60333 (WGS84)
Elevation 1670
Relative position 3.7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVIL MESA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradford Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Montezuma(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(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 San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 037S 024E 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 05.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ROLLS, ELONGATE TABULAR
    Strike N 70 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG NW
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 12.19M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels And Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Montezuma Canyon

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 51.82M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 ADITS (2 CONNECTED)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUFF, L. C., AND LESURE, F. G., 1965, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONTEZUMA CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1190

  • 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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