Dead Buck Mine

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106070
MRDS ID W027756
Record type Site
Current site name Dead Buck Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.2746, 37.64305 (WGS84)
Elevation 2085
Relative position 2.2 MILES ESE FROM THE CHEESEBOX.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mancos Mesa NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(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

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 036S 017E 21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SEC. 21

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone

Analytical data

Result U3O8 = .220 %, V2O5 = .016

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    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, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.2746, 37.64305

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Stable Platform

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, IRREGULAR, TABULAR
    Strike N 30 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 0.46M
    Length 18.29M
    Width 4.57M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Deer Flat Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 39.62M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAMPLE H3 - 1 FT. CHIP ACROSS PAY STREAK

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNELL, T. L., 1964 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD COS., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Deposit

    FINNELL, T. L., FRANKS, P. C., AND HUBBARD, H. A., 1963 , GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS AND EXPLORATORY DRILLING IN THE DEER FLAT AREA, WHITE CANYON DIST., SAN JUAN CO., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL. 1132.

  • Production

    JONES, HAROLD, 1977

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H. 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1977 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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