Big Tree

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088097
MRDS ID DB00584
Record type Site
Current site name Big Tree
Alternate or previous names Mas 2
Related records 10203211

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.2313, 37.80193 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position EAST SIDE WOLVERINE BENCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pioneer Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 006E 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member-Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Mbr.-Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.2313, 37.80193

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Circle Cliffs Anticlinal Upwarp
Type of structure Local
Structure description West Flank Of Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbonaceous Trash In Sedimentary Channel

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION AT OR JUST ABOVE MOENKOPI-SHINARUMP CONTACT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1954

Mining district

District name Circle Cliffs Area Henry Mtns District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Boyd Bunnell
  • Type Owner
    Owner Universal Uranium Co.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO KNOWN RESERVES BUT IN FAVORABLE GROUND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DAVIDSON, E. S., 1967 , GEOLOGY OF THE CIRCLE CLIFFS AREA, GARFIELD AND KANE COUNTIES, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULL. 1229 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    1967 GEOLMAP DAVIDSON, USGS BULL. 1229

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM - MAS

  • Production

    USBM - MAS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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