Eureka 6

Occurrence in Uintah county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041832
MRDS ID M057657
Record type Site
Current site name Eureka 6
Related records 10130235

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.90351, 40.06385 (WGS84)
Relative position NW 1/4 OF SECT 4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pariette Draw SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Green-Desolation Canyon(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(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 Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 018E 04 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION UNKNOWN; 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1964 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Older alluvial deposits

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANIUM MINERALS ASSOCIATED WITH COPPER MINERALS AND CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL IN SHALE AND SANDSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Castle Peak Draw

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DASCH, M.D., 1967 , URANIUM DEP OF NE & W UTAH: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK #21 , P 116

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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