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Homestake Mine

Past Producer in San Juan 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015051
MRDS ID DB00052
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Mine
Alternate or previous names La Sal Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.28125, 38.2311 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 1.4 MILES SE 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 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Mossback Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Mossback Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.28125, 38.2311
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 21 DEG W
    Dip 8 DEG SW
    Thickness 6.1M
    Depth to top 161.54M
    Depth to bottom 182.88M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Homestake Mining Co.
Year of first production 1955

Mining district

District name Big Indian Wash Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H., 1978

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.

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