Rocky Mountain Uranium Corp.

Past Producer in Garfield 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015289
MRDS ID DB00657
Record type Site
Current site name Rocky Mountain Uranium Corp.
Alternate or previous names Circle Cliffs 1 - 20 Mas 28 1031

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.03185, 37.81638 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 3 1/2 MILES S OF PEEK-A-BOO ROCK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wagon Box Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Capitol Reef National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 034S 008E 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 ; NE 1/4 ; SE 1/4 OF SECTION 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Gypsum Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Moderate Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member/Chinle Formation;Moenkopi
    Rock description Shinarump Mbr/Chinle Formation;Moenkopi
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Glen Canyon Group

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Circle Cliffs Anticlinal Upwarp
Type of structure Local
Structure description East Flank Of Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 10 DEG W
    Dip 10 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology And Carbonaceous Trash

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION ALONG CONTACT OF SHINARUMP - MOENKOPI

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Circle Cliffs Area Henry Mtns. District

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cooper And Brown
  • Type Owner
    Owner Harold Ekker And L. R. Weeks

Comments on the production information

  • AT LEAST 1,216 LBS. OF URANIUM WAS PRODUCED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 243.84M

Comments on the workings information

  • 8 PORTALS, ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DAVIDSON, E. S., 1967 , GEOLOGY OF THE CIRCLE CLIFFS AREA, GARFIELD AND KANE COUNTIES, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1229 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    1967 GEOLMAP DAVIDSON, BULL. 1229

  • Deposit

    1967 MINEMAP UGMS SP. ST. 22

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM - MAS

  • Production

    USBM MAS 28

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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