Drill Hole For Uranium, Yb-7

Occurrence in DeKalb county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Uranium, Oil Shale
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026164
MRDS ID K002654
Record type Site
Current site name Drill Hole For Uranium, Yb-7

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.71885, 35.92427 (WGS84)
Relative position ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD, 0.5 MILE SOUTHWEST OF VAUGHN CEMETERY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

DeKalb(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sligo Bridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

McMinnville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caney(hydrologic unit)

Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee DeKalb

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE THREE LITHOLOGIC UNITS OF THE GASSAWAY MEMBER OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONTAIN THE MOST URANIUM, AND THE UPPER UNIT IS THE RICHEST. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS CONSIDERED AS A LOW-GRADE OIL SHALE, BUT IT WAS NOT TESTED FOR ITS OIL CONTENT AT THIS LOCALITY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Shale Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result TWENTY-EIGHT SAMPLES FROM A 33.67-FOOT INTERVAL CONTAINED FROM 0.0006 TO 0.0086 PERCENT URANIUM. THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 15.69 FEET THICK AND CONTAINED 0.0058 PERCENT URANIUM.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone > Bentonite
    Rock unit name Bentonite-Light Gray, Biotitic
    Rock description Bentonite-Light Gray, Biotitic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Rock description Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 10.26M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Young Bend Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Mines

Comments on development

  • THIS DRILL HOLE WAS PART OF A CORE-DRILLING PROGRAM CONDUCTED DURING 1952-1953 BY THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FOR THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. ; ECON.COM: THE URANIUM CONTENT IS TOO LOW

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE BENTONITE, TERMED THE CENTER HILL BENTONITE BY CONANT AND SWANSON (1961), IS THE MOST DISTINCTIVE BED IN THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. IT RANGES FROM 0.05 TO 0.14 FOOT THICK AND IS WITHIN 2 FEET OF THE TOP OF THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE LOWER DOWELLTOWN MEMBER AND THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER; THE THIN HARDIN SANDSTONE OCCURS LOCALLY AT THE BASE OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1974 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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