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Deep Creek Valley Occurrences

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Thorium
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  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055195
MRDS ID RE00261
Record type Site
Current site name Deep Creek Valley Occurrences

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.99891, 39.85743 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 1.8 MI N 80 W OF STEVES CREEK SPRING NEAR ELEVATION 7002.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ibapah Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 019W 21 NW OF SW OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • URANIUM ANOMALIES FOUND IN DEEP CREEK VALLEY ARE ON IBAPAH, GOSHUTE, AND IBAPAH PEAK 7.5 MINUTE QUADS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Thorium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Analytical data

Result RADIOACTIVE BLACK SAND FRACTIONS: 170 PPM U, 260 PPM TH. NONMAGNETIC CONCENTRATE CONTAINED 1250 PPM U, 2300 PPM TH. 18 ROCK SAMPLES FROM WESTERN EDGE OF IBAPAH STOCK CONTAIN AN AVERAGE OF 13.9 PPM U (NORMAL GRANITIC ROCK CONTAINS 4-5 PPM). OF 110 SOIL SAMPLES FROM A RIDGE JUST NORTH OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MINE, ONLY 2 WERE CONSIDERED ANOMALOUS, WITH 66.6 AND 13.1 PPM U.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.99891, 39.85743
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Creeks, Washes, Wave Action Of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANIUM CONTENT IN STREAM SEDIMENTS AND IN SURFACE AND GROUND WATER SHOWS A DEFINITE WESTWARD URANIUM MIGRATION FROM THE IBAPAH STOCK. U-BEARING SEDIMENTS ARE CONCENTRATED IN STREAM SEDIMENTS OVER A LARGE AREA, AND ARE CONCENTRATED AS WELL IN A SMALL RADIOACTIVE BLACK SAND PLACER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1977

Mining district

District name Spring Creek District

Comments on development

  • TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, 1978, AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE SHOWS 9 FIRST PRIORITY ANOMALIES ON THE GOSHUTE INDIAN RESERVATION. ON BASIS OF ANOMALIES IN GROUND WATER IN WELLS, ROCK SAMPLES, AND A BLACK SAND PLACER, SATKOSKI AND SOKASKI RECOMMEND DRILLING 3-5 ROTARY DRILL HOLES TO EXPLORE THE SUBSURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SATKOSKI,JACK J., AND SOKASKI, MICHAEL, 1980, FIELD INVENTORY OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GOSHUTE INDIAN RESERVATION, NEVADA AND UTAH: REPORT BIA NO. 13-11, P. 1, 6-11, TABLE 2, 3, 4, PLATE 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, APPENDIX 4-8.

  • Deposit

    TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, IND., 1978, AERIAL RADIOMETRIC AND MAGNETIC RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY OF THE DELTA QUADRANGLE, UTAH. FINAL REPORT, VOL. 1, GJBX-24-79: WORK PERFORMED UNDER BENDIX FIELD ENGINEERING CORP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC. (1978) COMPLETED AN AERIAL RADIOMETRIC AND MAGNETIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE DELTA QUADRANGLE. NINE FIRST PRIORITY URANIFEROUS METALLOGENIC ANOMALIES, UNINVESTIGATED BY FIELD WORK, ARE ON THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION, OTHERS ARE IN THE DEEP CREEK RANGE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1988 Mayes, Bea Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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