Happy Mine

Producer in Montrose county in Colorado, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10166784
MAS/MILS ID 0080850054
Record type Site
Current site name Happy Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -109.834, 37.89999 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

House Park Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(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

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Montrose

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -109.834, 37.89999

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM PROD TAB WASH OWN/OP: UNION CARBIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Coordinate doesn't match listed state

The coordinates (37.9000, -109.8340) appear to be in Utah, but this record is listed as being in Colorado. The location data may be incorrect.

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.