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Shinarump Mine

Past Producer in Grand 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. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078974
MRDS ID W027731
Record type Site
Mineralized Area Seven Mile Canyon District
Current site name Shinarump Mine
Alternate or previous names Shinarump #3, #4, Shinarump #3, Shinarump #1, Dime-Shinarump

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -109.70583, 38.685 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 2.4 MILE NE OF MONITOR BUTTE. Coordinates are for Shinarump No. 1 Mine adit in N2 of NE of NW sec. 34. See additional location comment.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Merrimac Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 024S 020E 27, 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • Shinarump No. 1 adit is in N of NE of NW 4 of Sec. 34. Shinarump No. 4 Mine (no adit) is about 600 ft. north in E2 of SW4 Sec. 27. Shinarump No. 3 Mine adit is 1200 ft. to the NNW in the N2 of SW of Sec. 27. Shinarump No. 1 and No. 3 adits are shown but not labeled on Merrimac Butte topo.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Barite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Bornite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Malachite Unknown

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 Chinle Formation Moss Back Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation Moss Back Mbr

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -109.70583, 38.685
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Moab Fault Just To The East

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 518.16M
    Width 152.4M
    Depth to top 76.2M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANIFEROUS NODULES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1948
Discoverer Gordon Babbel And Nicholas Murphy
Year of first production 1949
Production years .

Mining district

District name Seven Mile Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area
Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Harrison Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner G. E.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Thornburg Uranium Mining

Comments on the production information

  • Shinarump No. 3 Mine produced ore in 1957 (USBM 1957 Minerals Yearbook).

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1524M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCESS TO WORKINGS AS BY ADITS AND INCLINES SOME ARE CAVED AT PORTAL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    USBM Minerals Yearbook, 1957, v. 3, p. 1119.

  • Deposit

    FINCH, W. I., 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE SHINARUMP NO. 1 URANIUM MINE, SEVEN MILE CANYON AREA, UTAH; USGS CIRC. 336.

  • Deposit

    DROULLARD, R. F. AND E. E. JONES, 1955 , GEOLOGY OF THE SEVEN MILE CANYON URANIUM DEPOSITS, GRAND CO. UTAH: USAEC RME-4066

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, Blair M., 1977 (US BLM, See original reporter)

  • Deposit

    CONS. DIV. COMP. DATE, 09-22-1970.

  • Deposit

    MESA METAL-NONMET MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    Bates, C.E., 1955, Photogeologic map of the Moab-10 quadrangle, Grand County, Utah: USGS MAP I-116, scale 1:24,000. [Mine locations shown but not labeled]

  • Deposit

    Garvin, R. F., compiler, 1966, Directory of mining industry of Utah 1965: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin 79, 94 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Deposit includes the Shinarump No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4 Mines. Locations by comparing Pl.1 of Circular 336 to Merrimac Butte topo.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1977-12-01 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management MRDS W027731 = 10078974, this master record.
Editor 2011-10-28 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey Merged and deleted 6 duplicate records.
Reporter 1974-06-01 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey DC13132=10108655, DC14061 = 10020830, DC13128 = 10020376, DC13126 = 10108653
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines 040190180 = 10252160
Reporter 1976-01-01 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey W017271=10072283

Beyond USGS

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