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Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106074
MRDS ID W027806
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown
Alternate or previous names North Point

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.22238, 37.67305 (WGS84)
Elevation 1750
Relative position 0.7 MILES SWS OF SOLDIER CROSSING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jacobs Chair(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 015E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION 11

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MINERALS ARE APHANITIC

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.22238, 37.67305

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR, LENS
    Strike N 3 DEG E
    Dip 3 DEG W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon Area - White Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION UNKNOWN AND UNABLE TO ESTIMATE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVE INFORMATION UNOBTAINABLE

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT IN MOENKOPI FORMATION DRIVEN IN CHANNEL OF SHINARUMP - FLOODED. DEPOSIT AND WORKINGS UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 CO., 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

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT INFORMATION UNOBTAINABLE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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