Happy Jack Mine (Dry Valley area)

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015031
MRDS ID DB00029
MAS/MILS ID 490370315
Record type Site
Current site name Happy Jack Mine (Dry Valley area)
Alternate or previous names Happy Jack Mine, Peter No 1 - 4, Happy Jack-Peters Hill, Happy Jack - Peters Hill

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -109.34889, 38.00861 (WGS84)
Elevation 2076
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position 5.1 MILES SOUTH OF CHURCH ROCK. Adit shown but not labeled in SW4 Sec. 12 on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Church Rock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(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 San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 032S 023E 12, 13 SW of SW; SW of NW? Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: N 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 13

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • 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

Main Entrance (1) -109.34889, 38.00861

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dry Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Brunke W W
    Year 1974
  • Type Operator
    Owner W. L. Wilson (Pres.) (Paper)
  • Type Owner
    Owner Idaho Mining Corp.

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE INCLINE OPEN - OTHER ADITS CAVED AND/OR BACK FILLED, ACCESSIBLE INCLINE CAVED BADLY AND FILLED WITH WATER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-01-01 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey MRDS W017292 = 10093659
Reporter 1978-02-01 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management
Reporter 1987-04-09 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0490370315 = 10300826.
Reporter 2011-11-07 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate records.

Beyond USGS

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