Red Creek Canyon Prospects

Occurrence in Daggett county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Uranium
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020849
MRDS ID DC14114
Record type Site
Current site name Red Creek Canyon Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.351, 41.06217 (WGS84)
Relative position SE 1/4 SE 1/4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hawks Nest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Firehole Canyon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Daggett

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
002N 024E 05 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.351, 41.06217

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: HIGHLY FRACTURED UPPER PRECAMBRIAN RED CREEK QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Comments on the other database information

  • RECORD NUMBER 569 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 490, 1965, P. 183

  • Deposit

    WALKER AND OSTERWALD, 1963, USGS PROF. PAPER 455-A, P. 23

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP 6Q 101, 1957, CLAY BASIN QUAD

  • Deposit

    3A) UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK #21, 1967, P. 125

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 07-31-1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONLY URANIUM MINERALS IN AREA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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