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Rocket Junior Mines

Past Producer in Grand 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. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088015
MRDS ID DB00158
Record type Site
Current site name Rocket Junior Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.94432, 38.54915 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 2.5 MILES NORTH OF HORSETHIEF SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mineral Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(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 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN UNSURVEYED SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) 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 Black Ledge Unit Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Black Ledge Unit Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.94432, 38.54915
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 52 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 7.62M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 21.34M

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
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Gail And Ray Tibbitts

Mining district

District name Mineral Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frank Blair
  • Type Owner
    Owner Gail Tibbitts

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 80.77M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE ADITS - PART OF LARGEST ADIT IS CAVED.

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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