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Payday # 3

Past Producer in San Juan 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090180
MRDS ID W027494
Record type Site
Current site name Payday # 3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.77014, 37.76306 (WGS84)
Elevation 2633
Relative position 1.2 MILES NORTH FROM THE NOTCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poison Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(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

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 020E 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NE 1/4 NW 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 6

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.77014, 37.76306
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 10 DEG E
    Dip 3 DEG W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Elk Ridge Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Shumway Brothers

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLE PRODUCER BUT CANNOT BE DETERMINED FROM WORKINGS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 97.54M
    Overall depth 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE ADITS - SOUTH ADIT CAVED, CENTER AND NORTH ADITS EXPLORATION ONLY

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED BY RIM STRIPPING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOTHING CAN BE DETERMINED ABOUT THE DIMENSIONS OF THE DEPOSITS DUE TO CAVED CONDITIONS OF WORKINGS

Reporter information

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

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

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