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Rainbow Canyon Mine

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. Materials information
  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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089645
MRDS ID W027814
Record type Site
Current site name Rainbow Canyon Mine
Related records 10202923

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.31043, 37.71082 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 7.2 MILES NNE FROM THE 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

Mancos Mesa NE(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

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 San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 015E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION 30

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Chinnle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinnle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.31043, 37.71082
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Red Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Loyd Blake
  • Type Owner
    Owner Don, Loyd, John Blake

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO ESTIMATE AVAILABLE

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKER JUST WENT OFF SHIFT - MINE FULL OF SMOKE - DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSIT AND WORKING UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNEL, T. L., GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD CO'S., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Reserve-Resource

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DESCRIPTION UNAVAILABLE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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