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Rube Mine

Past Producer in Grand 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106033
MRDS ID W027279
Record type Site
Current site name Rube Mine
Alternate or previous names Blacky # 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.54292, 38.83054 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 1.4 MILES ENE OF MOLLIE HOGANS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mollie Hogans(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S;023S 022E;021E 06;12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 OF SEC 6

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Secondary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Pascoite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore

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) -109.54292, 38.83054
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Salt Valley Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, SCATTERED PODS
    Strike N 45 DEG W
    Dip 3 DEG W
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 6.1M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Thompsons - Yellow Cat District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kramer

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 153.92M
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF NUMEROUS ADITS, DOGHOLES AND OPEN CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOKES, W. L., 1952 , URANIUM - VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF THE THOMPSONS AREA GRAND COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 46 , 51 P

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B. M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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