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Pandora 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Mineral rights holdings
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015133
MRDS ID DB00188
MAS/MILS ID 490370435
Record type Site
Current site name Pandora Mine
Alternate or previous names Pandora
Related records 10276803

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.22028, 38.30944 (WGS84)
Elevation 2146
Relative position 1.5 MILES E FROM CROSSROADS IN TOWN OF LA SAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

La Sal East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Dolores(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 1 Utah
Salt Lake 028S 025E 33 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Montroseite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • Copied from deleted record 10276803: Area: .4 HA Length: 0 M Width: 0 M Depth to Top: 152 M Thickness: 1.5 M Strike: N70E Dip: 02S Type of Orebody #1 : REPLACEMENT Shape of Orebody #1 : TABULAR Primary mode of Origin : OTHER Primary Ore Control : LITHOLOGY Degree of Wallrock Alter. : UNKNOWN Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 : UNKNOWN Strike And Dip : N70E:02S Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. : 1.8 Total Surface Area (HA) : .4 Date of Last Modification : 780213

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Paradox District, La Sal Area

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Union Carbide
  • Type Operator
    Owner Atlas Minerals Corp.
    Home office Utah
    Year 1974

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1975
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.15 wt-pct Uranium Major 1975

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE ACTIVE. WORKINGS NOT VISITED
  • copied from deleted record 10276803: Type of Workings: Underground Depth: 137 M Additional Information: MAS Development Schedule #: 1 Mining Record # : 1 Status of Mining Method : PROPOSED Mining Method : ROOM AND PILLAR 10-34 Swell Factor : .73 Hardness of Rock : SOFT NONPLASTIC WITH LITTLE WATER Rock Characteristics : ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES Rock Support Chars. : SUPPORTING Mine Support Chars. : TIMBER Capacity Units : MT COMMOD/DAY Units of Production : $/MT COMMOD Year of Information : 1974

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY, 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    USGM STUDY 1973

  • Production

    USBM PROD TABS (WASH).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1977-12-01 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management
Editor 2011-10-31 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted 10276803 and 10203380
Reporter 1987-04-09 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0490370435 = 10276803
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0490370469 = 10203380

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:

  • Atlas Minerals Corp. — dissolved ~1998
    Atlas Corporation filed Chapter 11 in 1998 amid uranium-mine reclamation liabilities. Mining assets were dispersed in bankruptcy.

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.

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