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Prospect No. 9

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078542
MRDS ID W026917
Record type Site
Current site name Prospect No. 9

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.09152, 38.63721 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position 3.5 MILES NORTH OF KIRKS BASIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dolores Point North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Dolores(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 026E 07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 SEC 7

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Secondary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.09152, 38.63721
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, BLANKET
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 22.86M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 10.67M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleo Channels, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1948
Discoverer Otis Shufeit, C.B. Pond

Mining district

District name Gateway

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bob Mc Farland

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 30.48M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EICHER, L.J. AND MILLER, G.A., 1956 , GATEWAY DISTRICT, MESA CO. COLORADO AND GRAND CO. UTAH; FROM GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS, US AEC, TEI 620

  • Reserve-Resource

    BLAIR MC CARTHY 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIGNIFICANT SECONDARY URANIUM MINERALS ON FRACTURE FACES AND FACES OF WORKINGS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

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