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Occurrence in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Alteration
  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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079026
MRDS ID W027816
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown
Alternate or previous names Rainbow Canyon Middle

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.32044, 37.69832 (WGS84)
Elevation 1414
Relative position 6.2 MILES NNE FROM THE CHOCOLATE DROP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mancos Mesa NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(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 035S 015E 31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , SEC 31

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Moderate Bleaching In Mudstone

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, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.32044, 37.69832
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 0.3M
    Depth to top 2.13M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Red Canyon Area.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO ESTIMATE MADE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 137.16M
    Overall depth 13.72M

Comments on development

  • EXPLORATION ADIT IN SANDSTONE CHANNEL LOW RADIOACTIVE ALONE SOME SANDSTONE, MUDSTONE LENS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNEL, T. L., GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD CO'S., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Reserve-Resource

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Jones, Harold H. U.S. Geological Survey

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