Chinle Deposits

Prospect in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000863
MRDS ID ISM0756
Record type District
Current site name Chinle Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.884, 36.93331 (WGS84)
Relative position PT OF REFERENCE DERIVED FROM MRD COMPUTER DATA FILE. AREA ESTIMATED FROM 1:5 000 000 SCALE MAP. DEPOSITS IN THE CHINLE FORMATION ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Apache(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rooster Rock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Shiprock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Utah
United States Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.884, 36.93331

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description BROAD FLUVIAL AND FLUVIO-LACUSTRINE PLAIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1904
Year of first production 1948
Year of last production 1984

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: LUTHER SMITH, ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY, TO H.C. GRANGER, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; OCT 16, 1985: COMPUTER SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, COLORADO PLATEAU V-U DEPOSITS, ORGANIZED BY HOST ROCK.

  • Deposit

    WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: R. GENE CLARK, ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY, TO H.C. GRANGER, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NOV, 1984: INCLUDES COMPUTER SUMMARY, OF PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, COLORADO PLATEAU V-U DEPOSITS ORGANIZED BY AREA; PREPARED BY LUTHER SMITH, DEPT. OF ENERGY.

  • Deposit

    WOOD, H.B., 1968. GEOLOGY AND EXPLOITATION OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE LISBON VALLEY AREA, UTAH: IN RIDGE, J.D., ED. ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967 (GRATON-SALES) VOLUME); NEW YORK, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, V.1, P. 770-789.

  • Deposit

    MALAN, R.C., 1968. THE URANIUM MINING INDUSTRY AND GEOLOGY OF THE MONUMENT VALLEY AND WHITE CANYON DISTRICTS, ARIZONA AND UTAH, IN RIDGE,G J.D., ED. ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967 (GRATON-SALES VOLUME): NEW YORK, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, V. 1, P. 790-804.

  • Deposit

    YOUNG, R.G., 1964. DISTRIBUTION OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE WHITE CANYON-MONUMENT VALLEY DISTRICT, UTAH-ARIZONA: ECON. GEOL., V. 59, P. 850-873.

  • Deposit

    HUBER, G.C., 1980. STRATIGRAPHY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS, LISBON VALLEY DISTRICT, SAN JUAN COUNTRY, UTAH: QUARTERLY OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, V. 75, NO. 2, 45 P.

Beyond USGS

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