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Chocolate Drop 2

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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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. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089611
MRDS ID W027678
Record type Site
Current site name Chocolate Drop 2
Related records 10276405

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.3396, 37.60583 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position .4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF "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

Chocolate Drop(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 037S 014E 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 2.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

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 Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.3396, 37.60583
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 12.19M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 60.96M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Red Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bill Wood

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 323.09M
    Overall depth 91.44M

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

    TRIMBLE L. M., 1977 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

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