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Big Bowl

Occurrence 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. 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. Land status
  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 10093781
MRDS ID W027749
Record type Site
Current site name Big Bowl
Alternate or previous names Old Powder
Related records 10276463

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.42959, 38.41666 (WGS84)
Elevation 1661
Relative position 1.7 MILES NNE OF KANE SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kane Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 027S;027S 023E;022E 31;36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4 SEC. 36 ; NW 1/4 SEC. 31

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tyuyamunite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.42959, 38.41666
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD THIN LENSES
    Strike NE
    Dip 1 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.15M
    Length 1.22M
    Width 1.22M
    Depth to top 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Disseminated Carbon Trash

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 3.96M
    Overall depth 2.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 SETS OF WORKINGS, CONSISTING OF TRENCHINGS, PITS, RIM STRIPPING. MOSTLY HAND WORK; AREA 1800 FT BY 500 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIN LENS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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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