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Movie Town

Occurrence in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090999
MRDS ID DB01832
Record type Site
Current site name Movie Town
Related records 10202728

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95743, 37.23888 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position IMMEDIATELY EAST OF MOVIE TOWN

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 041S 001W 18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SEC. 18

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    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 Chinle Formation
    Rock description Chinle Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description East Kaibab Monocline

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike NNW
    Dip 5 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sandstone Lens

Comments on the geologic information

  • 100 FEET ABOVE SHINARUMP CONTACT IN PETRIFIED FOREST MEMBERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Paria River

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY NONE

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL DIG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

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

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