Hecla Shaft

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015049
MRDS ID DB00050
Record type Site
Current site name Hecla Shaft
Alternate or previous names Radon, Hot Rock

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.28708, 38.24749 (WGS84)
Elevation 2088
Relative position 1.55 MILES WNW FROM USLM 1

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sandstone Draw(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 029S 024E 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 28

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Celestite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • 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 Chinle Formation, Moss Back Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Moss Back Member

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.28708, 38.24749

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENS, PODS, IRREGULAR
    Strike N 35 DEG W
    Dip 4 - 8 DEG W
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 243.84M
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Big Indian Wash Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Atlas Minerals Corp.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 762M
    Overall depth 292.61M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 COMPARTMENT SHAFT - MINED BY RETREATING LONG WALL MINING

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERY BY DRILLING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.