Radiance Group

Past Producer in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088360
MRDS ID DB01833
Record type Site
Current site name Radiance Group
Alternate or previous names Sandy Group
Related records 10300350

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.97409, 37.1261 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 1/2 MI NORTH OF CAT STAIR CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fivemile Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Paria(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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 042S 002W 25 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • C, SW 1/4 SEC. 25

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE YIELDED 0.25 % U3O8 AND A TRACE OF V2O5 , AND 0.05 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Kayenta Formation
    Rock description Kayenta Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.97409, 37.1261

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Adjacent To Faults, Steeply Dipping Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 5 W
    Dip 49 DEG E
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 228.6M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Paria River

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rasmussen, A. H. And V. H.

Comments on the workings information

  • RIMSTRIP 1,000 FEET LONG, OLD UNDERGROUND WORKINGS NOW REMOVED

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 7 HOLES DRILLED, COMBINED FOOTAGE OF 250 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: BURANCK, 1942

  • Deposit

    BURANCK, ALFRED, 1942 , INITIAL REPORT ON THE LEAD ORE MINE, TOOCK COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY, CIRCULAR NO. 9 .

  • Deposit

    DASCH, M. D., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN AND WESTERN UTAH IN URANIUM DISTRICTS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO 2 .

  • Deposit

    1942 RECON UGMS CIRC. 1

  • Production

    USBM MAS 1902

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LACK OF CARBON TRASH NOTICEABLE; DISSEMINATED IN SANDSTONE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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