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Gray Fault

Past Producer in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078976
MRDS ID W027734
Record type Site
Current site name Gray Fault
Alternate or previous names D. W.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.71765, 38.52248 (WGS84)
Elevation 1536
Relative position 3.1 MILE WEST OF CANE CREEK POTASH MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Bar Canyon(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 026S 020E 21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 OF SEC. 21

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Secondary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

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 1
    Rock description Chinle Formation 1

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.71765, 38.52248
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 45.72M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 45.72M
    Depth to bottom 48.77M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Channel Structures And Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Joe Baker And Walter Daye
  • Type Owner
    Owner Balcones Drilling Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 76.2M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE ADITS. ACCESS TO THE AREA IS BY VERY STEEP ROUGH DIRT ROAD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B. M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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