Willow Creek Claim

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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041835
MRDS ID M057664
Record type Site
Current site name Willow Creek Claim
Alternate or previous names Bartholomew

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.65072, 39.90385 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST OF BIG PACK MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Pack Mountain NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Seep Ridge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grand Junction(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Willow(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 020E 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION UNKNOWN. UTM COORD IS THE CENTER OF THE SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE ASSAY 0.02 % EQUIV U308 , 0.02 % V205 , 25.4 % CALCITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form COATING FRACTURE SURFACES AND BEDDING PLANES, SOME FINELY DISSEMINATED

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Open Spaces Along Fractures And Bedding Planes.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willow Creek

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOBLE, E.A. AND ANNES, E.C. JR, 1957 , RECON FOR URANIUM IN UINTA BASIN OF COLORADO AND UTAH:USAEC (PUBLICATIONS) RME-94

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.