Sanostee Deposit

Occurrence in San Juan county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), REE
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096167
MRDS ID W001586
Record type Site
Current site name Sanostee Deposit
Related records 10175121

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.89066, 36.45225 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 56 MILES S 25 W OF AZTEC, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sanostee West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Toadlena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Shiprock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Chaco(hydrologic unit)

Upper San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 026N 019W 29 W2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION FOR POINT LOCATED AT SE END OF MESA AT TOP OF CLIFF.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Zirconium Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Thorium Primary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Secondary
REE Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THERE IS NO TANTALUM ASSOCIATED WITH THE NIOBIUM. YTTRIUM OCCURS IN SOLID SOLUTION WITH ZIRCON.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brookite Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Anatase Unknown
Ilmenite Unknown
Monazite Unknown
Rutile Unknown
Zircon Unknown

Analytical data

Result CHIP SAMPLES AVERAGED 15.6 % TIO2, 13.2 % FE, 2.6 % ZRO2, 0.12 % THO2 (EQUIVELENT), AND 0.11 % NB2O5. YTTRIUM IS ALS0 REPORTED AS BEING PRESENT IN MEASURABLE AMOUNTS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Mesaverde Formation
    Rock description Mesaverde Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.89066, 36.45225

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike N 15 W TO N 30 W
    Dip FLAT LYING
    Thickness 4.27M
    Length 2225.04M
    Width 243.84M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN THE MENEFEE MEMBER OF THE MESAVERDE FOORMATION. ; GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Discoverer Us A.E.C.

Mining district

District name Shiprock District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tom Tyler, Sanostee, Nm

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CHENOWETH, W.L., 1957, NMGS GUIDEBOOK, 8TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 212-217

  • Deposit

    DOW, V.T., AND J.V. BATTY, 1961, USBM REPORT OF INV. 5860, P. 34-42.

  • Deposit

    BINGLER, E.C., 1963, NMBMMR, CIRC 68, 59 PAGES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL SMALL TO MEDIUM ELONGATE LENSES TRENDING NW
Deposit DEPOSIT IS ON UNSURVEYED LAND OF NAVAJO RESERVATION 2 MI. N. OF SANOSTEE, AND IS FLAT-LYING. FOUR SAMPLES AVERAGED 15.6% TIO2, 2.6% ZRO2, 13.2% FE, AND 0.12% EQUIVALENT THO2. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN THE 33 NEW MEXICO DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE SANOSTEE, ARE ESTIMATED AT 4,751,200 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRADE PERCENTS OF 12.82 TIO2, 2.07 ZRO2, 15.51 FE, AND 0.10 EQUIVALENT THO2.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1950'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-NOV-1983 Murray, Diane U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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