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Yankee Girl

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107505
MRDS ID W027793
Record type Site
Current site name Yankee Girl
Related records 10202853

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.23738, 37.56889 (WGS84)
Elevation 1594
Relative position 6.4 MILES SW OF FRY SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fry Spring(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 037S 015E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION 14

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone

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) -110.23738, 37.56889
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR, LENS
    Strike N 10 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG W
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 12.19M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Red Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Marion Abbott
  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels, Leasor - Lyman Shumway

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DRILLING BEING DONE ON WEE HOPE, WINDY DAY, YANKEE GIRL NO. 6 AND YANKEE GIRL MINES CHANNEL. RESULTS UNKNOWN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE ACTIVE-WORKINGS WERE NOT VISITED. DESCRIPTION OF WORKINGS AND DEPOSIT UNKNOWN

Comments on development

  • EXTENT AND RESULTS OF DRILLING PROGRAM TO THE NE 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

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION UNAVAILABLE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Jones, Harold H. U.S. Geological Survey

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