Bernabe Prospect

Occurrence in Sandoval county in New Mexico, 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014469
MRDS ID D011260
Record type Site
Current site name Bernabe Prospect
Alternate or previous names Prospect: Bernabe-Montano Grant, Bernabe Montano Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.00504, 35.22256 (WGS84)
Elevation 1722
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 28.0 MILES S 80 W OF BERNALILLO, NM, Within A Radius Of 2600 Ft.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sandoval(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Herrera(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Puerco(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Sandoval

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 012N 002W 35 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • THERE IS NO UTM GRID IN THIS AREA. LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM CHAPMAN, WOOD & GRISWOLD, INC.'S MAP (SHEET 3, 1979). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison
    Rock description Morrison
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.00504, 35.22256

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Several Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 24.38M
    Length 2438.4M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 457.2M
    Depth to bottom 518.16M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE WESTWATER CANYON MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1971
Discoverer Conoco

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1, P. 1-416

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF OVER 2000 DRILL HOLES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1

  • Deposit

    HATCHELL, W.O., AND C. WENTZ, 1981, "URANIUM RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY--A REVIEW OF THE NEW MEXICO URANIUM INDUSTRY 1980," NEW MEXICO ENERGY AND MINERALS DEPT. REPORT, 226 P.

  • Deposit

    CHENOWETH, W.L. AND H.K. HOLEN, NMBMMR MEM. 38, P. 17-21

  • Deposit

    GREEN, M.W., 1980, NMBMMR MEM 38, P. 70-74

  • Deposit

    CHAPMAN, WOOD & GRISWOLD, INC., 1979, NMBMMR GM-31, SHEET 3

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE OREBODY WAS DELINEATED BY OVER 2000 DRILL HOLES. THE ORE ZONES ARE HIGHLY FAULTED. THIS DEPOSIT REPRESENTS THE EASTERN LIMIT OF ECONOMIC ORE IN THE GRANTS MINERAL BELT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-84 Murray, Diane New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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