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Borrego Pass Deposit

Occurrence in McKinley county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014532
MRDS ID D011350
Record type Site
Current site name Borrego Pass Deposit
Alternate or previous names Deposit: Conoco

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.94563, 35.62366 (WGS84)
Elevation 2102
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 32.8 MILES N 8 W OF GRANTS, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McKinley(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Borrego Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chaco Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Chaco(hydrologic unit)

Upper 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 County
United States New Mexico McKinley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 016N 010W 07,18 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM MCLEMORE'S (1983) DATA. THE DRILLHOLES COVERED A PORTION OF SECT. 13, T16N, R11W. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Coffinite Ore

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) -107.94563, 35.62366
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ambrosia Lake Dome

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 1828.8M
    Width 640.08M
    Depth to bottom 693.42M

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 1975
Discoverer Conoco

Comments on the reserve resource information

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

Comments on the workings information

  • THE OREBODY WAS DELINEATED BY DRILLHOLES REACHING 2275 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERKINS, B.L., 1979, "AN OVERVIEW OF THE NEW MEXICO URANIUM INDUSTRY," NM ENERGY AND MINERALS DEPT. REPORT

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE OCCURS IN A 1500 TO 2100-FT WIDE, 6,000-FT LONG ORE BODY.
Deposit Discovery Year: MID-1970'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 Murray, Diane New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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