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Hey Joe Mine Group

Past Producer in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Copper
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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. 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 10088002
MRDS ID DB00127
Record type Site
Current site name Hey Joe Mine Group
Alternate or previous names Mibye #4

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.04016, 38.63915 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 3.9 MILES SSE OF NATURAL ARCH ON TENMILE POINT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tenmile Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Green(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(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 025S 017E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • IN UNSURVEYED AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone And 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 Black Ledge Unit Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Black Ledge Unit Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.04016, 38.63915
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENSES
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 22.86M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel, Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discoverer Bill Bronson

Mining district

District name Inter River District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 ADITS: TWO OPEN, TWO FLOODED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY - 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1978 Trimble, Larry 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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